492 REPORT OP THE BUREAU OF ATSTIMAL INDUSTRY. 



8 are dead, 10 affected, and 9 sold, Of mares served this year by the Carle horse, 2 

 have died and others are ill. 



To complete this history I must add the hearsay evidence from Dr. Morin, an irreg- 

 ular veterinarian at Clinton, a man named Daniels, and Mr. Moore, who owned the 

 brown stallion branded D, and sold him to Mr. Fischer, to the effect that that horse 

 not only suffered in 1884, and was incapacitated for service for an entire year, but 

 that he also infected a number of mares before he was withdrawn from service. 



Probable source of the disease. So far as the above testimony goes, it seems to 

 exclude the idea of the importation of infection with the 19 stallions of Harold & 

 Culbertson introduced in 1884. First, no untoward results could be found in mares 

 served by them in 1884; second, those of their number that were sold to distant 

 points in that year appear to have continued sound; third, one of them retained by 

 Harold & Culbertson, but used out of the district, is still sound; fourth, the disease 

 was shown in Harold & Culbertson mares as early as in the horses late in 1885. 

 Since that date it has been propagated extensively to horses and mares alike. 



The suspicion attachable to the Texas mares is somewhat vague. The death of the 

 Lemon horse on the Texas ranch, and the alleged disease of Texas mares on the 

 Lemon farm in Illinois, are suggestive. It has not been shown, however, that the 

 Lemon stud in Illinois had not been interbred with the Moore horse (now Mr. Fisch- 

 er's) which is testified to have suffered in the same year, or with mares bred to that 

 horse. 



The strongest suspicion is apparently to be fixed on the imported Moore (Fischer) 

 horse, branded D. Report says this horse came from France in 1883; served and 

 infected mares in 1884, suffered from a disease of the generative organs in the same 

 year, but has now apparently recovered. This being accepted, it is easy to conceive 

 of the infection on the Lemon farm in 1884 from this source, and of that on the 

 Harold & Culbertson farm in the autumn of 1885. 



If this could be implicitly relied on it would only be necessary to root put the infec- 

 tion here in Illinois and to trace every horse sold from the infected locality since 1884. 



As regards the locality, the State has agreed to provide inspectors, and a large local 

 committee, with a member in each town, has been intrusted to quarantine and brand 

 all exposed animals. Time must show how effectively this will work. 



The horses and mares that have been sent out of the State would require to be fol- 

 lowed by the National Government if they are to be attended to at all. 



It may be well also for this Bureau to send an inspector to the Lemon ranch at Ver- 

 non, Tex. , to make sure that the disease is not being spread there and in the vicinity. 



If it is judged desirable to investigate the microbian source of the disease there is 

 abundant opportunity at Clinton and Wapella. By sacrificing one of the victims 

 the exudates in the testicles, sheath, and other tissues could be received into steril- 

 ized tubes and forwarded to Washington. 



I would suggest further the inoculation of foals, geldings, and barren mares with 

 the products of the diseased mucous membranes, of the generative organs, of the 

 nose, and of the interstitial exudate. This would determine at once the susceptibility 

 of the animal apart from generative excitement, and the virulence or harmlessness 

 of the diseased products of other organs than the generative ones. 



A PREVENTIVE AND CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA. 



Mr. S. A. R. Beach, of Whitlock, Montgomery County, Ind., gives 

 the following preventive and cure for hog cholera: 



In September, 1887, I had 178 hogs and pigs weighing from 300 pounds down to 

 sucking pigs. They were running in a meadow and pasture, having a creek with 

 gravel bottom running through it. I had been feeding corn in the ear, and had com- 

 menced to feed a light ration of green cOrn, cut and hauled out each day. No other 

 hogs were near or had come in contact with mine. About this time I found that one 

 or two of the small shoats would not eat. In a day or two I saw that the " jig was 

 up " that something had to be done or I would have to follow the lead of others, ship 

 out for sale all I could and lose'the balance. But I took what I eventually found a 

 better course. I went to a druggist, and after consultation with him agreed upon the 

 following recipe, which is good: Take 5 pounds sulphur, 2 pounds copperas, 1 pound 

 black antimony, one-half pound saltpeter, and 1 pound common salt. Mix and pulver- 

 ize well, then mix a like amount of w^ood ashes and feed in oats or mill feed. This 

 amount should be given in 3 feeds, once or twice a day, for some time, to 100 hogs. 

 Remove the hogs to a new feeding place and give them fresh beds as often as possible. 

 They should have running water to drink. Every sick hog should at once be placed 

 in a hospital, away from the well ones, and completely isolated. The sucking pigs of 



