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Mr. Watts's and E. C. Lewis's herd, but they report no particular success. 

 Mr. Dunlavy also employed a patent-medicine man to treat some of his 

 hogs, but he says " His medicine does not amount to a row of pins, if 

 the government did give him a patent." 



Mr. Xeweir.s herd, at Deer Park, was treated with bi-snlphite soda, 

 but without success. He then changed to sulphur in swill, and there 

 was marked improvement. On October 11th Mr. Isewell reported that 

 this last treatment succeeded well. In all cases where carbolic acid has 

 been used for disinfecting purposes, parties so using it have added some 

 to the swill in trough. One litter of ])igs which I treated entirely with 

 carbolic acid passed the acute attack, but hnally wasted away and died. 

 On 2>ost mortem examination I could not discern any innuediate cause of 

 death. 



Cornelius Sullivan, living in the outskirts of the city of Ottawa, had 

 three large and six small pigs taken Avith the disease. At the time I 

 saw the lot he had lost two large and one small one. I gave him bro- 

 mide ammonium, but have not yet heard how it acted after the second 

 day of administration. He said then that he could see no difference. I 

 gave the same remedy to Mr. Thomas Toombs and a Mr. John Hickey, 

 but have not yet received any rei)ort from them. 



Mr. Hunt tried a remedy administered by Dr. Dunlap, of Iowa. At 

 last accounts they were still dying, but he says he thinks it helped them 

 some. 



Many have used tar as a preventive quite freely with more or less 

 apparent advantage. While nothing gives entire immunity, yet herds 

 in which this disinfectant has been used do not suffer so severely as 

 others not so treated. 



Abner Strawn had a very fine herd of Berkshires. He is largely 

 engaged in raising fine stock, and is fitted up with every convenience 

 for feeding and sheltering it. Still he lost very hea\aly. The widow 

 Hardy directly west of him lost all but one or two of her hogs, but in the 

 next herd west of widow Hardy's, owned by Mr. Duffy, which was only 

 separated by a common board fence, not one died. He fed sulphur 

 mixed in swill. This was in the summer of 1877. This year the disease 

 is not in that locality, and what few animals Mr. Strawn had left have 

 done well, and he has raised some very fine pigs from a sow and boar 

 that had the disease last year. A Mr. Degan has also raised a fine litter 

 of pigs from a sow and boar that came very near dying last year. I 

 have seen several instances where those that had passed through the 

 disease and were used for breeding j^iu-poses have done well. I met- 

 with one case, that of Mr. Goss, who says that he did not succeed in 

 raising pigs fi'om parents that had been affected, but the cause may have 

 been in the boar, as ho made no fiu-ther test. 



Peter Doiilavy, situated north of the Illinois River, imported five 

 sows and introduced them into his herd the latter ])art of August. Ho 

 pui'chased of a Mr, Poundstone, whose herd it has since been proven was 

 infected at the time, as they subsequently tlied. As Mr. Donlavy was 

 situated in a neighborhood where there was no disease pending, I desired 

 to make an effort to quarantine the disease and confine it to his herd. 

 Now, at the present writing (October 8th) it has not spread to any ad- 

 joining farms. His nearest neighbor is eighty rods away. ]\Ir. D. has 

 disinfected thoroughly and continuously with a solution of crude car- 

 bolic acid, a tea-cupful to a pail of water, using a sprinkling pot to sprinkle 

 his hogs and yards, sleeping and feeding places. 



If it can be established that the disease can be quarantined, then I 

 think we have made a move in the only direction with Avhich I have any 



