DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 19 



Guinea fowls, roostiug iu trees, far away from all other fowls, have snflered iu like 

 ratio. 



I have sometimes thought that hog-cholera was partially of a local nature, as we do 

 not suffer to any great extent from it iu Northern Illiuoia and iu Wisconsin. If the 

 ringer was abolished, and Iho hog allowed to use his natural propensity, I have no 

 doubt the disease would be greatly abated. 



Mr. Waller Brodie, Wbitaker's, N. C, writes as follows : 



The only disease existing among any class of farm-animals in this section at present 

 is hog-cholera. We have been troubled a great deal this year with the disease. Over 

 .'SO per cent, of our hogs have died, and a great many are now affected. The first 

 symptoms of the disease are manifested iu the way of a fever, followed by a diarrhea, 

 which continues about three weeks, when death ensues. But few infected hogs recover. 

 The disease is more fatal with young than with grown hogs. A good many remedies 

 have been tried, l)ut with indifferent success. In my hands sulphur has jiroved more 

 beneficial than anytliiug else. 



Our fowls have also been affected with cholera for five or sis years past. This disease 

 is also very fatal, and plays sad havoc iu the poultry-yords. Calomel has been used, I 

 learn, with some success. The disease is not so general as it is among the hogs. 



Mr. Jacob Groves, Boston, Mass., says : 



The first symptoms of roup are those of severe catarrh or cold, followed by a peculiar 

 and offensive discharge from the nostrils. Froth appears iu the uuder corners of the 

 eye ; the lids of the eye swell, and in severe cases the eyeball is entirely concealed. The 

 nostrils become closed by the discharges, which appear to be about the same as the 

 excrements of the fowl when suffering with diarrhea. This last sym]itom is so well 

 known that a description is deemed unnecessary. The cause of rou]5 is a too scanty 

 supply of grain, which necessitates an excess of green food. 



Mr. J. Earl Lewis, Pendletou, S. C, writing under date of Septem- 

 ber 16, gives the following case of bloody murrain in a valuable young 

 bull owned by him, and bis manner and successful treatment of the 

 same: 



His urine was of a dark, muddy color, and it seemed to give him great pain to uri- 

 nate, which he did iu very small (piantities. After eating he would become very sick, 

 and was not disposed to move about much. When he did so it would apparently give 

 him much pain, and he would travel but a short distance, when he would again lie 

 down. I gave him, iu the evening, one pound of Epsom salts, three tablespoonfuls of 

 saltpeter dissolved iu fiaxseed tea, usiug for the same about one-half pint of flaxseed. 

 In the morning I gave the same drench, except that I reduced the Epsom salts to one- 

 half pound. There was not much change in his condition, save in the appearance of 

 his eyes and a freer discharge of urine. It was a week before any decided change was 

 observable. I continued to give him daily a little flaxseed tea and saltpeter, which 

 seemed to briug back the natural color of the urine. At the end of a week he recov- 

 ered his appetite and would eat heartily, but his food seemed to make him sick, and 

 he would vomit like a human being. I then gave him, once a day for two days, red- 

 pepper tea and salt, which had the desired effect. He gradually recovered, but has 

 never been in as good couditiou as before the attack. 



Mr. Thomas Rudd, Waukegan, Wis., says : 



We have a disease here among cows called milk-fever, which has proved very fatal. 

 The loss has been greater than from any other disease. "Bloat" and "dry murrain" 

 also exist to some extent, but these diseases, I think, are attributable to irregular feed- 

 ing. Many other diseases prevail here from timeto time among farm-auimals, a descrip- 

 tion of which I will endeavor to send you soon. 



Mr. F. M. Coryell, Brewersville, Ind., says : 



Cholera exists among both hogs and fowls in this section of the State, and has 

 proved very fatal among both classes of animals, i)robably nine cases out of every ten 

 having proved fatal. In the first stages of the disease, as it atfects swine, the symp- 

 toms widely difi'er. In most cases a loss of appetite is first noticed. Sometimes the 

 animal is constipated, while in other cases exactly the reverse may exist. No cure has 



