28 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



Mr. A. M. Sanderson, Leesburg, Kosciusko County, Indiana, says: 



A friend of mine had a fine lot of hogs this fall, varying from pigs to fat hogs. He 

 has lost nearly all of them by some disease, probably the cholera. They were on wheat 

 stubble after harvest, and then on clover pasture. When first taken their evacuations 

 were dry and hard. This condition continued about three days, when diarrhea would 

 set in, and they would die within a few hours thereafter. Nothing was found to do 

 them anj' good. 



There is a new disease in this locality among horses, called by farriers pink-eyed 

 distemper. The horse, within a few hours after the atiack, will become stone blind. 

 Some get over it, while others only partially recover their sight. The eyes matter and 

 run a great deal. The treatment thus far has been merely experimental — what would 

 seem to relieve one would not benefit another. 



Chickens in some localities have nearly all died of cholera. In my own experience 

 I have found sulphur the only remedy. Mix with corn-meal and feed. With this rem- 

 edy I have cured fowls that could not stand up. 



Mr. O. W. Hannum, Leavenworth, Crawford County, Indiana, says : 



I have been dealing in stock in four or five different counties, and find all classes of 

 farm auiaials healthy except hogs. A disease exists among this class of stock which 

 carries them off very fast. Many people regard it as a malignant type of lung fever or 

 pneumonia. I lost forty-five head of hogs by this disease one year ago. No remedy is 

 known. 



Mr. James A. Martin, Salem, Washington County, Indiana, says : 



I know of no disease among horses as fatal as the lung fever. I had one die with it 

 some time since. It was taken with a hacking cough and difficult breathing, and lived 

 seven days. I know of no remedy that I cau recommend, for all die that are attacked 

 by the disease here. This disease is not as common as the bots, but is more fatal. A 

 lump of alum, the size of a walnut, given to a horse, will generally cure the bots. 



The only disease existing among hogs is cholera, and there are various cures for it. 

 Equal parts of sulphur and copperas, mixed in sweet milk, is the most effective remedy 

 I have tried. Some have tried coal-oil, castor-oil, poke root, and also patent medicines. 

 None of these remedies, however, are regarded as a sure and permanent cure. 



Chicken cholera is common among the poultry here. Soot mixed with corn dough 

 is the best remedy we have tried. 



Mr. J. D. Guthrie, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, says : 



Hog cholera, in its incipient state, with shoats and half-grown hogs, usually begins- 

 with constipation, a symptom easily discoverable by their droppings, which are hard 

 and marble-like. This is followed by a dry, hacking cough and internal fever, which 

 increases as the disease progresses. These symptoms are attended with a gradual loss 

 of appetite. At this stage of the disease their movements become listless ; they droop 

 their noses toward the ground, and are shy of approach. The duration of these symp- 

 toms depends upon the severity of the attack. In some cases they continue six or eight 

 days, and in others two or three weeks, with gradual loss of flesh until they look like 

 walking skeletons. I refer now to the premonitory symptoms. After the disease be- 

 comes epidemic they frequently die within twenty-four hours after the first indication* 

 manifest themselves, without any regard to flf-sh or previous condition. In the latter 

 stages of the disease they have a loose, discolored discharge, which soon terminates 

 with thumps. This is a palpitation iu the flank at the drawing of each breath. At this 

 stage the disease is easily imparted toothers, having become epidemic in form, and so 

 fatal as to carry its victims off within a few hours. The remedies that prove effica- 

 cious in the first stages of the disease are worthless in the last. I would here recom- 

 mend the removal of the diseased hogs from the rest of the herd, aud the remedies 

 hereafter mentioned given to the remainder. From my standpoint I am of the opinion 

 that cholera in swine, in the last stages, is incurable, uuless it be iu isolated cjxses. I 

 hold that constipation of the bowels is cholera in an incipient state, aud whatever 

 remedies would remove the cause the effect must necessarily follow. I speak only from 

 my own experience and observation, which practice has fully demonstrated to be, in 

 the main, correct. 



I have been very succe.ssfnl in relieving my herd of constipation by giving one-half 

 pound of calomel to fifty shoats, on corn moistened so that it would adhere to the 

 grain. This should be repeated at intervals of twenty-four hours, until the bowels 

 are opened by the medicine. Old bacon, grease, or linseed-oil will have the same effect,, 

 the only difference being that calomel will regulate the liver, while the others will 

 only relieve constipation. Grease or linseed-oil, if given in doses of one-half pint, will 



