DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 89 



Mr. Frank Adelsberger, Monroe County, Illinois, says : 



My personal experionce with diseases of animals relates only to hogs. Two years 

 ago, within a period of six months, I lost thirty head. They were a mixture of the 

 Chester-White and Poland-China breeds, and were running in a large dry lot with 

 plenty of fresh water to drink. They were attacked with sore throat, which symp- 

 tom was soon followed by swelling of the neck. They either could not or did not 

 desire to eat. I gave them lime, coal-stone, and snlphur. The epidemic lasted about 

 six weeks, and the hogs attacked died within from twelve to ninety-six hours after 

 the first symptoms were observed. There was no straw or chaff iu and about the lot 

 in which they were confined. 



Mr. D. WiSHMEYER, Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, says : 



I can only give my own experience with one class of farm-animals, that of hogs. I 

 had five that were taken sick this fall and but one of them died. Frank Herr cured 

 four of them with a remedy which he gave in sweet milk and sugar. I do not know 

 what remedy he used. The hogs wei'e afflicted with diarrhea and refused to eat. 



Cliolera carried off a good many of my chickens last spring. I gave them red pep- 

 per, but cannot say whether it was of any benefit or not. 



Mr. John Herzler, Iluntsville, Madison County, Alabama, says : 



In August last a disease made its appearance here among hogs, and by December 

 about all that were affected had died. Up to that time mine had remained compara- 

 tively healthy, and none of them had died. I had about one hundred and forty head, 

 and they were running in a plowed field containing about one acie to each hog. I 

 noticed that they kept themselves well rooted into the ground and laid a good deal of 

 the time on their bellies. Before sowing the field to wheat I removed them, and in 

 about a month thereafter they began to die. I lost about all those that had access to 

 the barn-yard and slept in hot places. I penned seventy-five head in a plowed lot 

 containing about one acre of ground, and in March and April, after the lot had become 

 hard and dry, they all died but ten. I think they were affected with typhoid fever 

 and infiamniation'of the bowels. Some few would become lean and would linger for 

 a long time ; but as a general thing they died during the night, although they were 

 apparently in a healthy condition the evening previous. Some few got well. Among 

 those that recovered were some that I fed on warm blood from the slaughter-house. 

 After I turned them out into the woods and swamps they entirely recovered. 



Mr. Daniel Oilman, Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois, says : 



I find that it will be impossible for me to devote the time necessary to make a sat* 

 isfactory report on so important a subject as that relating to diseases of farm-animals. 

 It is something that ought to be attended to at once in this part of the country, as the 

 hog-cholera sweeps off thousands of dollars' worth of swine every year. I regard the 

 disease as the most important one in this locality, and, from its varied symptoms, I am 

 satisfied it will require a thorough investigation to determine its causes and find a 

 remedy for the scourge. 



Mr. John T. Gibbony, Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, says : 



Cattle have suffered considerably in various portions of this county, and quite a 

 number have died from Texas fever, a disease contracted from herds of Texas cattle 

 which were driven through the county. I have heard of no successful remedy for the 

 disease. The contagion was confined to the different localities through which the cat- 

 tle passed, and did not spread. 



Hog-cholera carried oli' a number of hogs during the past year. Those on the prairies 

 did not sufter to such an extent as they did in other localities. The disease seemed to 

 be more prevalent in the timber-lands and along its margins. Here the hogs were 

 allowed to run at large in great droves. The land was low, and in some places wet, 

 while on the prairies it was dry ; besides, they were confined together in small herds. 



Mr. W. P. Jack, Eussellville, Franklin County, Alabama, says : 



Candor compels me to state that as yet I think there is very little real information 

 possessed in this county on the subject of hog-cholera, which appears to be the main 

 disease affecting farm-animals. So far as my information goes.there hasbeen no cure dis- 

 covered for the disease. It is certain, however, that hogs can be kept healthy by using 

 preventives. In my own experience I find that when I use them I lose no hogs, but if 



