IGS DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTPIER ANIMALS. 



of tav, anil very dry and liard. These animals had never been in the 

 barnyard, and there were no marshy places in the field in which they 

 ranged. This history, as it occurred on Mr. McVeig'li's i)lace, mihtates 

 sti'ougly towards the theory of ephemeral fever (fever of acclimation) asthe 

 exciting cause. The weather was rainy, warm, alternating with damp, 

 raw, chilly weather. The hogs of his neighbors, John Carl, William Tif- 

 fany, and Samuel Simpson, living in a southeasterly direction, were dying 

 at the same time. They gave signs of great thirst, would eat mud and 

 soft soap avariciously. As a general thing they had a cough, and occas- 

 ionally, A^omi ting ; appearance of eye not noticed. E'. C. Brown's hogs, 

 of Middleburg, began to show signs of disease ; would mope about and 

 look didl and stupid. About the 20th of June, 1878, all his hogs had a 

 cough ', bowels very much constipated ; discharges from calomel sticky 

 and tarry, black as tar itself 5 great thkst ; would eat mud, soft soap, 

 and their own excrements. All had more or less eruption upon the 

 skin ; skin had scarlet blush. Hogs had jilenty of good feed, grass, 

 grain, slop. He tried every remedy, almost everything ; thought calo- 

 mel the only thing of service that was tried ; lost about 50 per cent, of 

 his hogs. Shoats proved to be most liable to the disease. The hogs of Mr. 

 A. B. Moore, proprietor of Aldie Mills, commenced to show symptoms of 

 disease about the middle of June, 1878. The disease was not as fatal with 

 his hogs as it generally was with those of his neighbors. Attributed this 

 fact to good clean shelters, good food, mill-feed, apples, and slop. Gave 

 no medicines. Altitude of his place 400 feet above tide-water. About this 

 time, advancing from the northeast and traveling south (in direction of pre- 

 vailing winds and fog), it began to be felt at all the farm-houses along the 

 road leading from Middleburg, in Loudoun county, to Salem, in Fauquier 

 county, playing sad havoc with the young hogs of A. B. Eector, Mr. Hath- 

 oway, John Middleton, Howell Brothers, Maj..T. B. Hutchison, &c. Mr. 

 A. B. Eector thought the plant known in some neighborhoods as barrow- 

 root, in others as bui'vine, in strong infusion, was beneficial. This region 

 of country is mostly COO feet above tide- water. Here also the hogs run- 

 ning after cattle were those most affected. About this time the disease 

 passed up the pike leading from Aldie to TJpperville and Paris, never 

 halting until it reached near to the summit of the Blue Eidge, above the 

 village of Paris, in Fauquier county, at an altitude of 1,100 feet above 

 tide-water. From Salem it passed up the main road, leading from Salem 

 to Markham, Mr. T. A Eector's hogs being among the first affected. 

 His nearest neighbor, Mr. Wilford Utterback, li\dng between Mr. Bector 

 and Salem, was unusually fortunate with his hogs. He did not lose 

 many; thinks they need good attention ; knows of no remedy. Altitude 

 of Mr. Eector's and Mr. Utterback's farms, 550 feet above tide-water. 

 F. W. Maddox, proprietor of Oak Hill fiirm, lost about one hundred hogs 

 Mr. Charles I^rown lost all he had, except five shoats. The disease was 

 very fatal at Maj. S. B. Barley's farm, near Delaplane Station. At A. 

 J. Chunn's, John E. Strother's and others, on the west side of the Little 

 Cobbler Mountain, the disease was very fatal. These farms all lie at 

 an average altitude of GOO feet above tide- water. No reuicdy seemed o*' 

 any avail in stopping its ravages on any of these farms. Above Mark- 

 ham, at Mr. Georg'e Strother's, Mr. Conner's, and jNIr. Charles Trussel's, the 

 disease was quite fatal. At Mrs. I\ilmer's, above I Petersburg, at an altitude 

 of 1,150 feet, it prevailed with violence. The altitude otMr. Strother's. 

 My. Trussel's, and Mv. A. Conner's is about 550 feet above tide-water. 

 Mr. Trussel's hogs were led upon mill-stuff, corn, and slop. He lost six- 

 teen out of twenty. Mr. A. Conner lost eighteen head out of twenty. 

 Young hogs were the ones that suffered most. Mr. Charles Trussel 



