DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHEK DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 53 



40 feet. 



should be sprinkled two or three times a week, using a common sprinkler or a wisp of 

 straw. 



In cases of erysipelas the hog will appear indisposed and rather mopy. At first its 

 bowels are somewhat constipated and its fajces dry and hard. "Within a lew days 

 diarrhea, tbougli not always a symp- 

 tom, may be noticed ; red or bluish- 

 red 8])ots will appear on the skin ; 

 swelling will set in, and, if the hog 

 does not soon die, the hair will begin 

 to fall off. and the skin, in some ^ 

 cases, will become surfeited and '" 

 even crack open. It will thus lin- '-' 

 ger along for thirty or fortj' days, 

 and sometimes recover after it lias 

 been given over to die. Tliis dis- 

 ease is liable to affect the vital 

 organs, and when it does it runs a 

 rapid course, proving fatal in a few ■£ 

 days or resulting favorably in a '^ 

 comparatively short time. The dis- 2 

 tinguishing symptoms in this and 

 enteric, fever or inflammation of 

 the boNvels are, instead of the red 

 spots on the skin, an eruption of 

 red specks appear, and vomiting . 

 and diarrhea are generally present § 

 within a very few days after the 1^ 

 attack. If not propeiiy treated it '^ 

 is equally fatal with the others. 

 As in other cases, I would advise 

 separation of the sick from the well 

 ones, and in cold weather, shelter 

 and ijrotection, also observing like c" 

 rules as to feed and water, using -2 

 tar-water with carbolic acid. One ^ 

 ounce of the latter to a barrel of 

 water, and one gallon of the water 

 to each hog per day in addition 

 to three quarts of thin corn-meal 

 gruel to each hog, will be found 

 the best treatment. For those that 

 have diarrhea, one-half teaspoonful 

 of muriate tincture of iron may be 

 given three times a day. A small 

 amount of carbolic acid for the well 

 ones may also be given. I cannot 

 give the proportion of hogs cured 

 by the above course of treatment, 

 but so far as tried it has proved 

 very effectual. To be healthy, hogs 

 should have a fair degree of clean- 

 liness, and where they do not have 

 access to running water, the pools 

 where they wallow should be dis- 

 infected once a week by the api)li- 

 cation of either lime, wood-ashes, 

 or copperas. 



Herewith I give a diagram of a 

 barn owned by Mr. Jesse Lockhart, 

 of Niantic, 111., which he erected for 

 the protection of his hogs. Two 

 years ago this gentleman informed 

 me that he had been using this barn 

 for three years, and that during 

 that time, notwithstanding he had 

 handled several thousand hogs 

 yearly, he had not lost one from the so-called hog-cholera. 



The foregoing design comprises two cribs with a drive-way and scales between, 

 making a main building forty feet square and fourteen feet high, with gables at each 



