DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 33 



Mr. W. S. Haviland, Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, says : 



In Augast, 18r>6, 1 lost about 30 per cent, of my hogs by cholera. I removed the re- 

 mainder (about 85 head) from a blue-grass woodland panture, supplied with a creek 

 of running water, to a dry u{)laud clover and timothy pasture having no water in it. 

 They all seemed, at the time, to be more or less affected with the disease. I gave 

 them all the corn they would eat, and regularly fed them six pounds of salt well stirred 

 and mixed with fifty pounds of half-rotted, strong wood-ashes every seven days. They 

 all got well, and I have never had any hogs do better than those eighty-five head did after 

 their recovery. Of late years, while the disease is prevailing on adjoiniug farms to 

 my own, I carefully notice my hogs, and when I discover lice or nits on theui I wash 

 them with soap-suds made of strong country soap, about once in ten days until all ap- 

 pearances of lice and nits have been removed. I then use soft soap, diluted with hot 

 water to the thickness of thin molasses, besmear it over the head and neck of the hog, 

 and put as much in the ears as I can, in order to drive out the lice. With this treat- 

 ment I have succeeded in warding otf diseases among my hogs. I salt regularly every 

 seven days, especially in dry hot weather, giving seven pounds of salt stirred and well- 

 mixed with about fifty-five pounds of damp, half-rotted, strong wood-ashes to each ona 

 hundred head of hogs. 



Mr. O. G. Brogle, Sparta, "White County, Tennessee, says: 



The only disease that has ever affected sheep in this locality is a kind of distemper, 

 brought on I think by running on one pasture too long. In fact I am of the opinion 

 that they are rather starved into it by having to graze over ground covered with their 

 own filth. It is called rot by some persons, and snoffeLs by others. As a remedy, 

 nothing will be found better than a change of pasture. For a severe case of snoffela 

 a strong decoction of tobacco-juice, injected into the nostrils with a syringe, will 

 relieve the animal very speedily. A second application is rarely necessary ; but should 

 it be, once a week will be often enough to apply it. 



The most terrible and fatal disease we have to contend with is that of cholera among 

 hogs. Its ravages are fearful during some seasons. As preventives, bluestone and 

 copperas are used to some advantage. The preparation is made by dissolving one 

 pound each of these ingredients in hot water, then mix a bran or meal mash and feed 

 to one hundred head of hogs. A little salt should be added to make it palatable. If 

 cholera prevails in a herd the above amount should be given twice a week, as it will 

 perhaps be found as good a remedy as anything else. Ouce every ten days is oftea 

 enough to use it as a preventive. 



For lice and scab in hogs, a preparation composed of equal parts of tar and lard, 

 rubbed on the hog, and sulphur given internally, will soon free the animal of ver- 

 min. Another remedy is to empty about one gallon of turpentine into their wallow, 

 which will also soon free them of lice. 



Cholera among fowls also prevails here. We have used alum and sulphur, both as a 

 preventive and cure, with good success. I give one-fourch of a pound of each in 

 dough, to every one hundred grown chickens, once in two weeks, aud oftener if the 

 disease prevails to an alarming extent. I also keep an abundance of fresh lime about 

 their resting-places, where they can get at it without trouble. 



Mr. H. GooDLANDER, Milford, Kosciusko County, Indiana, says: 



Farm animals have fall range here and an abundance of mast, and consequently are 

 free from disease. However, a few hogs died last spring of quinsy. Since locating 

 here I have induced my neighbors to use sulphur freely as a preventive of disease 

 among stock, with apparent success. Garlic is extensively used as a preventive of 

 chicken cholera. 



Hog cholera is prevailing to some extent a few miles northeast of here, but an in- 

 vestigation into the causes of the disease would be attended with some expense, which 

 the owners of the stock would not be able to bear. If the goverament will pay the 

 necessary expenses the investigation will be made. Your proposed investigation da- 

 serves the highest commendalion. 



Mr. M. S. PuLLiA:vr, Melissa, Collier County, Texas, says: 



Farm stock of all kinds properly cared for in this vicinity are remarkably healthy. 

 Chickens are subject to cholera. We use a handful of alum in their watering-troughs 

 as a remedy, with apparent success. 



Mr. W. P. Render, Point Pleasant, Ohio County, Kentucky, says : 



Horses here are subject to various diseases. The first is weak eyes, which >eems to 

 behereditary. As a preventive I \'^iuld recommjud more care in broddiug. Th^j sec- 

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