26 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



they would die at the rate of eight or ten daily, until, perhaps, there would not he 

 twenty hogs left. Some of the diseased auiiuals would plue away and dry up, as if 

 with a fever; some would die with spasms; in others, the flesh would, so to speak, 

 rot and slough oft' to the very bone; a foot, ear, tail, or nose drop off'. Some wonld 

 have symptoms like a person with violent vomiting and purging. These rarely ever 

 recovered with us. This year in this county the disease, thus far, has been very mild. 

 Poultry are subject to a disease also called cholera here. They drop off the roost 

 dead, and fall over suddenly in the day-time. Sometimes the disease will kill all the 

 fowls on a farm at the rate of eight or ten per day. No remedy has ever been found 

 for either of these diseases. Their causes are wholly unknown to us, though there 

 are many conjectures. 



Mr. A. C. Ellis, Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan, says : 



Hogs have been affected with various diseases in this locality. The disease com- 

 monly known as cholera is, perhaps, the most fatal. Its duration is generally .short, 

 fatted hogs usually surviving but a few hours. The remedies have been various and 

 generally unavailing, so far as my own information extends. As the result of frequent 

 experiments I am prepared to give, as the most effective remedy I have ever seen tried, 

 a simple receipt furnished me by one of the largest hog-dealers in this county. It 

 consists of one pound of lime, one ounce of spirits of turpentine, and one-half ounce 

 of pulverized saltpeter, mixed with soaked coru or slops. This amount is sufficient 

 for twenty hogs, and, for a cure, should be given every other day ; as a preventive, 

 about twice a week. 



There is also a fatal disease among hogs here similar to quinsy, affecting the throat 

 principally. It is genarally confined to young hogs. I know of no remedy. They 

 usually survive from ten to fifteen days. At least 50 per cent, of the cases prove fatal. 



No disease is common among sheep, save the old one, known as rot. Experience has 

 proven that one of the best recipes for this trouble is the killing off or clearing out of 

 the older ones of the flock, and frequent changing and crossing of stock. 



Of the feathered tribe, chickens and turkeys are both subject to a disease known as 

 cholera. The remedies used are various but unavailing. The duration of the disease 

 is generally short ; in fact, the attack is frequently instantly fatal. At least 90 per 

 cent, of those attacked die. 



Mr. S. Woodward, Ohio County, Kentucky, says : 



There is but one class of animals in this locality subject to diseases which have not 

 been common for years, and that is swine. A great many of these animals have died 

 of a disease called cholera. The symptoms are various. Sometimes the hog will be 

 attacked with purging, and again extreme constipation will prevail. Sometimes the 

 hog will die suddenly, and in other cases it may linger until it becomes a skeleton. On 

 an average about one-half of those attacked with the disease die. There are seldom 

 any remedies tried, as we think they do no good. The disease is not confined to any 

 certain season of the year. In this locality we have had none of it since January and 

 February last, but we hear it mentioned as existing in other localities. 



I am of the opinion that a great many hogs die from the eff'ects of lice, especially 

 those lingering cases. These vermin find them an easy prey in their v.-eakeaed and 

 emaciated condition. 



Mr. G. H. Lucas, State Line City, Warren County, Indiana, says : 



A prevalent and fatal disease among hogs in this locality is known as cholera. The 

 first symptoms are running off at the bowels, which is generally accompanied by a 

 hacking cough. The animal becomes stupid, and refuses to eat. As the disease pro- 

 gresses it becomes very poor and emaciated, and stands around with its body drawn 

 up as if in pain. The disease usually proves fatal in from one to four days. The fol- 

 lowing remedy for the disease has been used with moderate success in this neighbor- 

 hood, viz : 



One pound each of sulphur and madder, one-half pound of saltpeter, one-fourth 

 pound of antimony, and one ounce of asafetida. This should be mixed with a pail- 

 ful of slop or milk, and three tablespoon fuls given once a day. 



I am satisfied the disease is contagious, and all infected hogs should be removed 

 from the well ones, and those that die should either be burned or buried very deep in 

 the ground. 



Mr. H. Shugart, Marion, Grant County, Indiana, says : 



There is a very destructive disease among hogs here, called cholera, but in my opin- 

 ion it is lung-fever. No remedy has been discovered that I am aware of. It is 

 eaid that hogs do best, and are less liable to be attacked by the disease, that have 

 clear, running water to drink, and are kept from a mud-wallow. This is a mistake, 



