214 DISEASES OF SWINE AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



more tliau anything else. Pine tar is a good remedy for quinsy. Mange or seal) is very 

 fatal to yoiing pigs. It appears as ulcers in the mouth, throat, and in the body. Car- 

 bolic acid, sulx)hur, and Inirjientine are used with considerable success. The fatality 

 in this disease is about 50 per cent, of those attacked. 



Sheep are sometimes aft'ected with rot, a disease somewhat resembling Spanish fever 

 or dry murrain in cattle. The fatality is about 50 per cent. 



ChiekcMis are liable to cholera, and often drop dead from their roosts without warn- 

 ing. Others have copious discharges of lilthy, green matter, their combs and gills 

 become very iiale, and after lingering a week or two die in a very emaciated condition. 

 "It frequently happens that some farmers will lose their entire flocks by this disease, 

 while others living near by will not lose any. There seems to be no remedy, and about 

 all die that are attacked by the disease. 



FLORIDA. 



Mr. T. K. Collins, IMikesvillej Columbia county, says : 



A disease commonly called "thumps" is perhaps the most fatal disease that affects 

 hogs in this part of Florida — more fatal from the fact that no remedy has ever been 

 found for it, at least to my knowledge. I have resided here seventeen years, and dur- 

 ing that time have not known a single case cured, notwithstanding 8 per cent, of our 

 hogs die of it annually. The first symptoms of the disease are a cough, shortness of 

 breath, thumping or bellows-like motion of the sides, with loss of apj)etite, and ulti- 

 mately, like in cases of consumption in man, waste away and die a mere skeleton. 

 The duration of the disease is from one to three months. I can offer no remedy for 

 this disease, or even suggest its cause. Some old stock-raisers say that this disease is 

 always worse after a heavy pine mast, which my own experience confirms. 



Staggers is also a common disease among hogs here, but it is seldom fatal. Cutting 

 the ears or scarifying the head generally gives relief, but cold applications or sun- 

 stroke treatment, when applicable, is considered better. 



Cholera made its appearance among swine here this season, and cut our meat crop 

 short. Most of those attacked died suddenly, many of them even before they were 

 known to be sick. This disease is new to us, and as yet we have found no remedy for 

 it. These are about the only diseases that attack swine in this locality. 



Mr. Chester S. Coe, Coe's Mills, Liberty county, says : 



With the exception of cholera among hogs we have but few other diseases among 

 any class of farm stock. As regards this disease we have never been satisfied as to its 

 origin, as hogs take it at any time and under all circumstances, those running at large 

 in the range as well as those kept in inclosed pastures. During many years' experi- 

 ence I have noticed that those which we term yard hogs — i. c, that are fed on dish- 

 water and kitchen slops — seldom or never take the cholera, and that if those that take 

 it in the range are confined in pens and fed on kitchen slops, with the addition of a 

 little copperas and sulphur, they generally get well. As for a preventive, we have 

 never found a positive one, though I am of the opinion that if hogs are frequently fed 

 on slops seasoned as above stated they will seldom take the cholera. 



In an every-day expwience of over sixty years in the use of horses and mtiles I have 

 never lost but one, and that one I lost by blind staggers. Good care in feeding, water- 

 ing, and driving, with an occasional handful of salt mixed with a little lime or strong 

 ashes, has always kept my stock in health and good order. 



I have had no disease among my fowls for thirty years. We keep a siipply of nux 

 vomica on hand, and twice or thrice a week mix it with their feed, giving from a 

 fourth to a teaspoon level full, according to the number to be fed. This has kept them 

 free from all disease; and more thanthat, if a hawk ever takes one he will never come 

 back for another. There is no perceptible difference caused in the taste of the meat. 

 The drug may be used by bruising twoor three buttons and steeping them in hot water. 

 "Kien add a few spoonfuls in mixing up their feed. 



INDIANA. 



Mr. D. C. Smith, Vincennes, Knox countj", says : 



The disease known ashog-cholera is causedby worms. There are two kinds of worms. 

 One works upon the kidneys, liver, heart, and lungs, .and is more dangerous when it is 

 in the region of the heart. It looks like a kidney-worm, but is somewhat smaller. 

 It penetrates to all ]»arts of the body. I huvclVumd it Ix'twocu the leaf-lard and the 

 intestines, and lietwcuai the shoulder and the ribs. The other worm works njton the 

 stomacli and small inlcstines, and causes the diarrhea. When they are in the liver 

 they cause a dry, hacking cough ; when in the lungs the cough is more severe, and 



