DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 61 



A disease called chicken-cholera has proved very fatal to fowls in this locality. The 

 fowl, when attacked, becomes stupid, refuses to ear,, aud in a day or two will die. Some- 

 times the comb or gills will turn pale or white. As a preventive, we use copperas in 

 the water or in the feed with good success. 



Mr. Thomas Tasker, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, says : 



This county has been comparatively free from diseases of farm-animals, with the ex- 

 ception of epizootic or distemper amoug horses. Tiie disease made its appearance last 

 July, and still prevails to a considerable extent. It is very difficult to contend with or 

 manage. The horse is affected with a cough — something like distemper — but the irri- 

 tation seems contined to the glands, and the disease appears similar to glanders. The 

 horse will have the heaves to all appearances until the glands are relieved. It has 

 proved fatal in some cases. 



As a remedy, four ounces of chlorate of potash to one quart of water has been used 

 with good results A spoonful of this preparation should be injected into each nostril 

 every morning and evening until a cure is effected. Some medicine that will act read- 

 ily on the kidneys will also be found useful. 



Mr. N. X. Halsted, Newark, Hudson Comity, New Jersey, says : 



In 1859-'60, the first year of the appearance of the pleuro-pneumonia in this State, I 

 had the honor of being president of the State society, and, with Governor Olden 's assist- 

 ance aud the generosity of some few of the members and officers of the association, we 

 made an exhaustive examination into said disease ; bought the diseased cattle, quaran- 

 tined them, killed some and made, through our surgeons and veterinary surgeons from 

 New York and this State, a careful autopsy of several we killed and many of those that 

 died. The result of these investigations was published in the annual report of the 

 State society. We went to Boston and made a thorough and careful examination there, 

 and decided that the disease was an imported one. 



The disease was brought into our State by Mr. Johnson, who bourht six calves from 

 the swill-milk stables in Brooklyn, N. Y. These brought the disease to his herd. 

 The society stopped it there and we had no more of it until our Union County farm- 

 ers bought some more swill-milk-stable animals, and, being sellers of milk, kept the mat- 

 ter quiet, or hid it from the officers of the society until the whole neighborhood was 

 infected. This has been stamped out by a rigid quarantine and the use of carbolic acid, 

 used as a disinfectant and by the animals inhaling it. They have some of it now in 

 Burlington County, produced from the same cause, which is being eradicated by the 

 same means. 



Our society crushed out the Spanish fever by killing all cattle affected with it at the 

 cost of the owners. All animals that die of this disease should be buried six feet under 

 ground — hides, hoofs, and all — and the sheds whitewashed with quick lime and car- 

 bolic acid, as the disease is infectious. 



Mr. Z. E. Jameson, Irasburg, Orleans County, Yermont, says : 



Hogs here are generally healthy, but during the past ten years there have been many 

 cases of apparent paralysis of the hinder parts of young hogs, ranging in age from three 

 months to one year old. At the present time a neighbor has three, about five months 

 old, so affected. One of these cannot walk at all, one can only walk with his fore legs, 

 and the other can use his hind legs but little. 



These pigs have been kept in a pen 10 by 12 feet, with a plank floor, aud fed almost 

 entirely upon sour milk. Within a few days they have been allowed to run in a yard 

 where they could have access to the soil, but no grass or green feed. No remedy is 

 known. Some die. Others live until they are in tolerably fleshy condition, and are 

 then killed for meat. The cause of this trouble may be in the lack of variety in food. 



Mr. J. S. Latemer, proi)rietor of Cedar farm herd of sliort-liorns, 

 Abingdon, Eaiox County, Illinois, says : 



Diseases of horses in my locality consist in what are familiarly known by our quack 

 horse-doctors as hots and epizootic or distemper, the first of which affects the horse 

 internally. The remedies usually recommended aud applied are too numerous to 

 mention. Each doctor has a different one, and the remedies kill about as often as 

 they cure the animal. No effectual remedy has yet been found, as a horse once 

 affected with the disease never entirely recovers. The epizootic is a malady which 

 affects the lungs aud throat, and sometimes spreads to the limbs and body of the horse. 

 We have what is known as regular distemper, which is of a milder form than the epi- 

 zootic; but both are evidently the same disease. The quacks have difl'erent remedies, 

 with none of which am I conversant. The disease attacks and destnsys animals rang- 



