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Cattle are subject to murrain, and in most cases the disease proves fatal. Good 

 pasturage and regular salting are also good preventives of diseases among cattle. Com- 

 mon colic in horses and cattle is generally cured by carbonate of lime, a teacupful^in 

 a pint of water and used as a drench. 



For bots in horses I have found the best remedy to be a strong sage-tea, with mo- 

 lasses. 



Hogs are afflicted here with a disease called cholera, for which no remedy has as yet 

 been found. Calomel is extensively given. My experience leads me to believe that 

 if hogs have plenty of good water, and are salted regularly and given sulphur and 

 ashes and a supply of bituminous coal occasionally, they will escape many of the dis- 

 eases to which they are subject. A great many of the diseases which afflict swine are 

 caused by worms and lice. I use grease and tar for Hce and calomel for worms, with 

 good results. Last year, when the hogs were dying here by scores, I kept mine up 

 in pens, with plank floors a little elevated. I kept the pens clean and used coal-oil 

 and sulphur to destroy the lice. I kept a constant supply of wood-ashes and coal in 

 the pens, and during the prevalence of the disease I did not lose a hog. They thrived 

 and fattened well, and contained no intestinal worms when killed. 



Fowls are subject to chicken-cholera, which is seldom cured. My experience is that 

 if fowls are kept in clean, well-ventilated houses, and given sulphur and lime to keep 

 off vermin, and are fed well, they will remain exempt from disease. Care and atten- 

 tion to feeding well are indispensable to healthfulness in fowls as well as all kinds 

 of farm-animals. 



Mr. O. E. LovETT, Saiut Elmo, Fayette County, Illinois, says: 



We have no diseases among farm animals except among hogs, and with us all the dis- 

 eases affecting the hog are classed under one head, that of cholera. Four-fifths of all the 

 hogs in this county have died during the past summer. The disease presents itself in 

 a variety of forms. Some become stupid and have a high fever. Occasionally they 

 have a swelling on the jaw, shoulder, or hip ; some on one part of the body and some on 

 another. These swellings are generally tilled with water. The bowels of many were 

 not aftected, and to all appearances were in a healthy condition. Hogs thus affected 

 would live from four to twelve hours. Those that had very high fever usually become 

 lame in one or more of their legs. After death their lungs were found filled with froth 

 and blood, but the bowels were apparently unaffected. Animals thus afflicted gen- 

 erally lived from two to four days. Others that had high fever were bloated in the 

 bowels, and would cough and purge when made to move about. They also passed 

 bloody water. Aftected in this way, they would visually live from two to ten days. 

 About one-third of this class recovered and are doing well. I tried about all the rem- 

 edies menti.med in the newspapers, and used lime and carbolic acid both in powders 

 and in a fluid state as disinfectants, but I cannot say that either did any good. In 

 July I lost about 100 head of hogs. They all died inside of three weeks. The disease 

 appeared and disappeared very suddenly. The few hogs that recovered are doing 

 finely, and appear as healthy as though they bad never been sick. 



Dr. A. Jones, Centreville, Montgomery County, Arkansas, says : 



We have had no epidemic disease among fowls for some time. The past spring, how- 

 ever, we had some chicken-cholera, a disease characterized by a lax condition of the 

 bowels, with greenish-white discharges, and a greatly enlarged liver and dropsical 

 condition of the heart. I examined many and found all to be in the same condition, 

 more or less, according to the advanced condition of the disease. No certain remedy 

 was found, though maiiy were tried. The best remedy, however, was ground mustard 

 in salt dough. 



Hog cholera, or a disease characterized by a high fever, nervous twitching of the 

 muscles and slight cough, some looseness of the bowels, drooping, &c., has existed, 

 more or less, for some years past among swine. Nearly all that are attacked die. 

 Twelve months ago three of my hogs were attacked by the disease. A neighbor sent 

 me word to give them one-half pound each of flour of sulphur, and he would pay for 

 all that died. I did so, and they all recovered. Since that time I have had no more 

 sick hogs. I would like to hear of the sulphur remedy being extensively tried. 



Mr. W. X. Cowan, Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama, says : 



Cholera is the only prevailing disease among our hogs. Frequently its fatality is .50 

 per cent., and sometimes as high as 75 per cent. Various remedies are used, but with 

 little or no effect. Epizootic in horses prevails to some extent, and in aggravated cases 

 seems incurable. Some mild cases pass off" like mild attacks of distemi)or. At some 

 seasons and in certain localities cholera is very fatal among fowls. We have no rem- 

 edy. Our ladies would rejoice at the discovery of either a preventive or specific for 

 this scourge. 



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