27$ REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



PIKE. The disease of hog cholera is not prevalent in this county. It is very sel- 

 dom that hogs ever die here of disease. 



UNION. Hog cholera appeared in the western part of this county in 1884. A 

 few sporadic cases have since occurred. In the northern part of the county, in 

 1885, a number of hogs died, but it was not thought the disease was cholera. Some 

 veterinarians called it anthrax. It has not yet appeared in the southeastern part 

 of the county. 



VENANGO. Hog cholera is unknown in this county. We have had no prevailing 

 disease among any class of farm animals. 



WARREN. I can not learn of the existence of any contagious disease among the 

 horses in our county, except an occasional case of glanders, and such are usually 

 destroyed as soon as the disease is surely identified. I know of no contagious dis- 

 ease among our cattle, sheep, or hogs. Three years ago a butcher in the southern 

 part of our county bought about 20 Western hogs, and within a few weeks lost 

 them all with what was thought to be hog cholera ; but no other cases are known 

 to have occurred in our county. 



WASHINGTON. We have had so limited a number of hogs affected with cholera 

 that we know but little about the disease. All kinds of farm animals have been 

 very healthy the past year. 



YORK. I regret my inability to furnish the Department with a reliable history 

 of the disease known as hog cholera. I suppose, like many other di eases, little 

 attention was at first given to it, believing that, like many[other epidemics, it would 

 of itself soon run out. But farmers have long since been convinced that the disease 

 has come to stay, and a hog-killing one it is. From all the information obtainable, 

 I infer that the disease first made its appearance in the county about thirty years 

 ago that it was brought here through the introduction of Western hogs, and that 

 it was unknown prior to that time. 



RHODE ISLAND. 



BRISTOL. Hog cholera "prevails among hogs in this county. Weakness in the - 

 legs is sometimes apparent, but no serious casualties occur among hogs from this 

 cause. 



PROVIDENCE. There is hog cholera in this county. There has been some in the 

 northern part of the State. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



ABBEVILLE. We have had no hog cholera during the year. A few sporadic 

 cases of disease, caused no doubt from unhealthy food, have been reported to me 

 by my assistants, who are scattered in various sections of the county. 



ANDERSON. Our hogs have been very little affected by cholera this year. Less 

 than half that are affected ever recover. We rarely administer medicines, and 

 know no remedy supposed to be curative or preventive. The date of its appearance 

 here is very uncertain. It is probable that our people knew nothing of cholera at 

 the time the disease was introduced here. It is generally supposed to have been 

 brought into our county by diseased hogs from Kentucky and Tennessee, which had 

 been raised and fattened on still-slops. 



BARN WELL. It is not known when hog cholera first appeared here, or its origin. 

 About 1857 farmers in a few localities lost some of their hogs from a similar dis- 

 ease, but it did not spread then as since. For many years after there were no 

 symptoms of it. Large numbers were in the forests and uncultivated fields, free 

 from any disease whatever. In later years it went from place to place, seemingly 

 without individual contact. We would hear of it 8 or 10 miles away, across large 

 water ways, and in two or three months it would be among our own stock. It has 

 crossed Savannah River, but was not carried by diseased animals. Hogs have es- 

 caped when fed once in two days on corn burnt to coal on the ear, and given greasy 

 salt, or that from bacon boxes, with sulphur in shallow troughs where they had 

 free access to it. They would eat this salt and reject clean salt. This is done be- 

 fore the disease reaches the locality and continued till its disappearance. Nothing 

 cures it ; we have heard that common soda will, but it has not been tried sufficiently 

 to determine. A good many horses die every year from glanders. 



CLARENDON. I had cholera among my hogs in 1864. I tried asafoetida without 

 effect. I tried it again in 1870. I had my hogs in a pasture, all in good order. One 

 morning I found a fine sow dead. Several were drooping. I saw one rooting where 



