20 DISEASE AMONG SWiNE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



been found, and the only preventive of any value is to separate the sick from the well 

 boijs at once, and j^ive those not affected an abundance of salt. 



The disease auaong fowls is equally fatal, the loss being about nine-tenths of those 

 infected. Like symptoms prevail as in hogs, loss of appetite, followed by diarrhea, 

 which continues two or three days, when the fowl dies. No remedy has been discov- 

 ered. 



Mr. Z. T. Miller, Ray wick, Ky., says : 



Hog-cholera is the most destructive disease we have to contend with here in Kentucky. 

 It will attack a lot of, say, one hundred head of hogs, and in two or three weeks it 

 will not leave a victim to prey upon. The disease is more general and much more fatal 

 in some localities than in others. A gentleman living in Nelson, an adjoining county 

 to this one (Marion), has not had a case in a lot of two hundred head of hogs, while 

 his neighbors have lost from three hundred and fifty to four hundred head. Whj' 

 should this be the case ? Perhaps feeding has something to do with it. Upon inquiry, 

 I learn that the gentleman whose hogs have escaped the disease feeds cooked meal, 

 in which is mixed wood ashes, char and stone coal, sulphur, copperas, and coal-oil. 

 This has been a successful preventive. His neighbors, who feed nothing but dr5' corn, 

 have suffered severely. Dry corn is too stimulating, and produces fever. This is soon 

 followed by loss of appetite, and the next symptoms are those of cholera. It is then 

 too late to commence drugging them, as they are almost sure to die. However, a few 

 might be saved if the sick were separated from the well ones as soon as the first symp- 

 toms of the disease were discovered. If hogs liable to infection were fed on cooked 

 meal with the mixtures above named, I am inclined to think they would escape the 

 disease. 



A peculiar disease has recently broken out among the horses in this locality. Its 

 first symptoms are observed in a severe stiffuess of the joints of the animal, so much 

 so, indeed, as to render him unfit for service. In a week or ten days his body will 

 become greatly swollen, and he will break out in sores from which an ott'ensive matter 

 will be discharged. The disease does not seem to prove of a fatal character, but the 

 horse is seldom worth anything after a severe attack. 



Hon. Daniel M. Henry, Cambridge, Md., says : 



From time to time I have heard of the diseases commonly known as "blind-stag- 

 gers " in horses, and " hog-cholera " and " chicken-cholera," prevailing in localities of 

 greater or less extent with great fatality, but they do not seem as yet to have pro- 

 duced a professional veterinary surgeon. 



Mr. Thomas Sturgis, of the firm of Sturgis & Goodell, cattle-breed- 

 ers, Cheyenne, Wj'oming, says : 



Among cattle but one disorder is recognized by stockmen here. It is known as 

 " blackleg." It occurs but seldom, and is confiued solely to large cattle and yearlings. 

 Its attacks are most frequent among fat cattle. It kills in twenty-four to thirty-six 

 hours. The symjjtoms are stiffness of shoulders and chest, and swelling of legs from 

 above downward. Recoveries are few, if any. No treatment has been found success- 

 ful. The largest loss known was that sustained by Edward Creighton, of this Terri- 

 tory, who, some years ago, lost two hundred head of calves aad yearlings. 



Spanish or Texas fever is unknown here. Tbe probable cause of escape is owing to 

 the state of nature in which cattle live — absence of prepared food or shelter and 

 extensive ranges, where they are widely scattered. 



Horses have suffered greatly from an epidemic closely resembling the epizootic dis- 

 temper exiierienced in the States two years ago. They grow very weak and thin, 

 cough, and discharge at the nostrils. Some die. In most cases recovery takes place 

 in three or four months. 



Scab in shee]) is known here, but the disease is not widespread. The remedy em- 

 ployed seems effectual, viz., a solution of tobacco used as a dip, and repeated until h 

 cure is effected. A dip made of a solution of carbolic acid and water is also em- 

 ployed, as are other dips in which arsenic mingles. 



Any remedies known to be valuable for diseases of poultry will be gladly received. 

 The symptoms of commonest trouble are dull eyes, unwillingness to move, failure 

 to eat, and death in about three days. 



Mr. Daniel Chaplin, La Grande, Oreg., says : 



There is no prevailing disease among domestic animals in this county except that of 

 scab in sheep. This parasitic disease has heretofore prevailed to considerable extent 

 on the Pacific coast, but it is getting to be better understood and is now fast disap- 



