DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. b9 



but not so severely as daring that season of epidemic. My horses arc more or less 

 affected two or three times a year. They are just recovering from a very severe attack. 

 They generally pass through all the nsnal symptoms of the disease, such as cough, 

 swollen glands, running at the nose, sore throat, &,c. One of them was so stitf that I 

 could scarcely get him out of the stable. By allowing them to rest two or three weeks 

 they generally come out all right, and get along well enough until the next attack. 

 If you can discover the cause and a remedy for this and numerous other diseases 

 existing among horses and cattle in this locality you will greatly benelit everyone 

 engaged in the breeding and rearing of stock. 



Mr. ^y. W. IIiNMAN, Cambridge, Ilcury County, Illinois, says : 



Hogs have been dying at a fearful rate in this part of the country for over a year 

 past. The disease seems quite general and widespread. However, there are a great 

 many farmers that as yet have had no sicl^ness among their hogs. During February 

 and March last I lost twenty-live head. The disease seems to attack the lungs, as a 

 harsh, rattling cough is generally the first symptom observed. This is sometimes 

 accompanied by vomiting and purging, the latter symptom being a very dangerous 

 one. In most of the cases that came under my observation the animals were consti- 

 pated. In all cases the excrement was very dark in color. There is nothing certain 

 about the duration of the attack. Some die in a few days, while others linger for two 

 weeks or more. I lost about one-third of my entire stock of shoats. Hogs that are 

 nearly matured are not so apt to take the disease. 



I do not know that I can give a diagnosis of the disease, as I have never been present 

 when a post-mortem examination has been made. Of one thing, however, I am quite 

 sure — the lungs are the place where the disease originates, anil they continue to be the 

 main cause of disturbance until the hog dies. I used various remedies, my first being 

 wood-ashes and salt — two or three parts ashes and one part salt. After that I used 

 turpentine given on coal (anthracite). This seems to help them. I also used carbolic 

 acid, sprinkling the xilaces where they slept and putting a small quantity into the 

 water they drauk. After using the carbolic acid thoroughly for a short time (two or 

 three days) my hogs began to improve rapidly; in fact I think I lost but two or three 

 afterwards, and they were bad cases when I commenced using it. 



I hear of no complaints in regard to other kinds of stock. I do not know as this 

 will be of any benefit to yon, but "straws show which way the wind blows." 



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Mr. Thomas 1). Ogden, Iloosier, Clay County, Illinois, says : 



Horses, cattle, sheep, and mules are very healthy in this locality at prese^it. Hog- 

 cholera prevails to some extent. No remedies have been found that can be relied upon. 

 If a sure preventive or a certain cure for this terrible disease could be found, it would 

 prove a great blessing to the farming community. 



Mr. WILLIA3I B. Stanton, Pollard, Escatnbia Coufity, ^Uabafua, says: 



Hogs here are atflicted with a disease called cholera. In 1874 I lost by this disease 

 all the hogs 1 had but two, and they were worthless afterward. I kept one sow until 

 she had pigs twice, and they all died within one or two days after they were dropped. 

 The disease was very fatal, and often I would not know that anything was ailing the 

 animal until it Avas found dead. Some lost but very few, while others lost nearly all 

 they had. The disease has not been so fatal since. A few hogs have died every year, 

 but the malady has not been so wide-spread as it was in that year. No remedy is known 

 here. I do not know whether cholera is the proper name for the disease or not ; I only 

 know that that is what it is called here. 



]\[r. T. B. Caldwell, Forrest City, Saint Francis County, Arkansas, 

 says : 



In our portion of country stock of all kinds receiving proper treatment are remark- 

 ably healthy. For the last seven years we have kejit on an average seven head of 

 horses, and during that time have not lost one from disease. We have had some cases 

 of colic, caused by irregularity in feeding, and the epizootic in a mild form, neither of 

 which required treatment. There has been some loss from charbon or yellow water, 

 supposed to originate from impure blood, which proper treatment would perhajis have 

 obviated. 



Cattle are very healthy, with the exception of slight losses from murrain, which it 

 is believed could be prevented by regular salting. This is proven by the seldom occur- 

 rence of loss where cattle have jileuty of salt. 



The loss from diseases among hogs is very great in this section of the State, but im- 

 proved breeds which have good attention are healthy and prolific. Two years ago I 



