DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 51 



Intestiaal worms may possibly have some coauection with the diseases which affect 

 swine. I was informed by a gentleman who performed the operation, that in spaying 

 some hogs lust year he fonnd the intestines of one greatly distended with worms. 

 He opened them and took out fourteen long, large worms, and closed the opening 

 without completing the operation of spaying. The hog lived and did well. Another 

 case, where the intestines wei'e opened, a large number of worms taken tluirefrom and 

 the hog afterward spayed, the operation jiroved fatal. Proof is abundant that intes- 

 tinal worms are common to most hogs, both in sickness and in health. 



Diseases of fowls exist in almost every community and locality. It has not been so 

 prevalent this season as in past years. It is, perhaps, contagions, as healthy fowls 

 brought from otiier places and allowed to run with diseased ones are soon infected. 

 Guinea fowls, ducks, and geese are exempt from the disease so far as my knowledge 

 extends. 



I neglected to state in the proper connection that all hogs affected with any of the 

 above symptoms refuse to eat, hence the dititiculty of administering medicine. 



Mr. W. M. Green, Jamestown, Eussoll County, Kentucky, says : 



There are many complaints of cholera among hogs, but I am seventy years old and 

 have never had a case in my herds. I have sometimes had hogs affected with qninsy — 

 a swelling of the throat. This disease is generally fatal. Lice no doubt cause many 

 diseases which ultimately prove fatal. I have had a good many sucking pigs and 

 small shoats die of a disease resembling consiimption. The first symptoms are those 

 of wheezing and coughing. They then become constipated, refuse to eat. seem very 

 stupid, take the thumps, and soon die. My grown bogs are generally healthy. I feed 

 from seveuty-tive to one hundred and fifty every year, and scarcely ever lose one. I 

 frequently give them copperas, sulphur, and soda, about one-half pound of each to 

 every twenty hogs. This is mixed with soft-soap and rye-meal. For quinsy I give 

 spirits of turpentine, or common tar mixed with meal. 



A disease called cholera is very fatal to chickens in this locality. I never had it in 

 my brood until this fall. They have died very rapidly ; indeed, it seems they will all 

 die, as we have no remedy. When attacked with the disease the fowls become stupid, 

 refuse to eat, run off at the bowels, and soon die. 



Mr. W. J. Moore, Larkiusburg, Clay County, Illinois, says : 



I am happy to report that there is no prevailing disease among any of the domestic 

 animals of this part of the country ; all are in a healthy condition at present. Cholera 

 prevailed to some extent during the early part of the past summer among hogs, but it 

 did not assume an epidemic form and soon abated. Its abatement was not attributable 

 to any specific treatment. 



Mr. S. Y. Pickens, Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Caro- 

 lina, says : 



In this locality, where the atmosphere is mountainous and the water pure, the most of 

 the ills to which horses are liable are, either directly or indirectly, the result of mis- 

 treatment, except, however, the epizootic and other distempers, not very prevalent at 

 any time in this section. Among the most common diseases here are the gravel, scours, 

 glanders, and colic. 



In case of gravel the horse manifests great pain ; when standing will stretch his 

 legs far apart; when lying the animal rolls much upon his back. When thus affected 

 the horse must be relieved in a few hours, or death will ensue. As a remedy, take two 

 eggs, pour out the yellow through a small hole broken in the shell, then fill the shell 

 with spirits of turpentine, and make the horse swallow the whole. Some inject onion 

 juice up the water-organ with good results. 



Scours are generally caused by excessive exercise or over-feeding with green food. 

 This causes over-heating, which is followed by loose discharges from the bowels, pro- 

 ducing general debilit^^ accompanied with great suftering. A dose of spirits of turpen- 

 tine or tar ooze will generally relieve the animal by checking excessive discharges, 

 after which drench freely with warm sage or pennyroyal teas. 



Glanders affects the roof of the horse's mouth, produces great soreness, and renders 

 it very difiicult for him to masticate his food. Sometimes some of the bars in the roof 

 of the mouth become a gristle. Bleeding in the roof of the mouth and frequent swab- 

 bing with a strong solution of copperas and alum is our remedy. 



Colic may be caused by excessive work, irregular and excessive eating, drinking, 

 &c. It is indicated by the strongest manifestations of pain, great restlessness, con- 

 tinual walking, rolling or pawing, and body swollen. The most speedy cure known to 

 us is to " rake " the animal and bleed in the neck and mouth. Then give him freely of 



