102 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



were lost died from the effects of worms. Soon after death a great many small worms 

 would crawl out of the nose and mouth, and when cut open and examined the stomach 

 and lungs would be found infested with laige numbers of small, white, wiry -looking 

 worms. I am of the opinion that some of the larger hogs died of the genuine hog- 

 cholera, but I have heard of no certain remedy for it. 



Nearly every summer a disease jirevails among fowls in this county. I think the 

 disease is what is generally known as chicken-cholera. We have no certain remedy 

 for it. 



Mr. Henry Waymire, Little York, Moutgomery County, Ohio, says : 



"We have had no epidemic among horses since the prevalence of the epizootic some 

 years ago. I hear of no diseases among cattle and sheep, and presume both classes are 

 unusually healthy. There has not been so much cholera among hogs this year as 

 formerly. There have been but very few cases in my neighborhood. Wood-ashes, 

 fed in slops, are used as a preventive. Turnips are said to be not only a preventive, 

 but also a cure. We lose a number of fowls every year from a disease known as chol- 

 era. Coal-oil mixed in their feed has proved quite a good remedy. 



Mr. T. J. CoNOVER, Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, says : 



I have had considerable experience with diseases incident to hogs, and ever since 

 cholera has been in our land I have been endeavoring to find a cure for it. I have tried 

 many preventives and cures recommended by journals, &c., but found none of them to 

 be certain remedies. For the last two or three years I have proven by my own experi- 

 ments that the process of changing from field to orchard, meadow, woods-pasture, or 

 roadside, or any new place will be attended with favorable results. At the first ap- 

 pearance of the disease I begin this changing process, I watch the hogs and when- 

 ever they come back and lie around the place of entrance I give them a new place, and 

 continue to do so through the day as often as I think necessary. I feed them no grain, 

 but give them all the slops from the house. My theory is that the well ones will survey 

 the new jjlace and the diseased ones will follow them around. This exercise induces a 

 circulation and warms up the system. What grass and herbs they get will be found good 

 for them. Now for the proof : In July, 1876, 1 had some ninety pigs, and out of this num- 

 ber saved seventy-five, which remained in good condition until proper age for market. 

 One of my neighbors, who had 120 head, saved but four. Two others, who had over 100 

 each, saved but eight, and so on through a long list. My neighbors were trying difter- 

 ent experiments with various kinds of medicines, while I was practicing the changing 

 process. Thousands of dollars have been fruitlessly expended in the use of medicines, 

 from which no benefit whatever was derived. 



Last May my pigs were aft'ected with cankered sore mouths and noses. Their mouths 

 were so sore they could not nurse, and they were in an almost starving condition. I 

 took them from their mothers, put them in a clean, dry pen, with good bedding, cleaned 

 their sores, and applied grease to keep the scabs soft. I then fed them on fresh milk 

 with a little water in it, and they soon recovered. Pigs, if taken in time and treated 

 in this manner, will generally recover. As to the cause of this disease, I have no knowl- 

 edge. 



Mr. Jeremiah Chadwick, Smethpoi-t, McKean County, Pennsylva- 

 nia, says : 



There are no diseses prevailing at present among farm-animals or fowls in this 

 county. A few, and but very few, horses have died in the oil localities of epizootic. 



I lost four head of young cattle with black-leg, and have heard of two or three other 

 cases. The disease and its causes and remedies are so well known that I will not 

 attempt to throw any new light on the subject. 



Mr. John N. Gearheart, Troy, Miami County, Ohio, says : 



A disease is prevailing among hogs in this county which is commonly called cholera, 

 but it appears to be more like a lung disease. They have widely difterent symptoms. 

 Some cough, some have high fever, some are lame, some bleed at the nose, some are 

 very thirsty, and all seem to lose their appetites. Soda, soft-soap, wood-ashes, and 

 cracklings have invariably proved good remedies for my hogs. I h)st two or three hun- 

 dred dollars' worth of swine before resorting to these remedies, but since using them 

 have lost none. A farmer near me, who had lost quite a number of hogs, commenced 

 to give one pound of soda in slops to 50 head of hogs twice a week, and has since lost 

 none. 



