112 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



days. Another form of the disease is that of congestion, producing death within a 

 very few hours. The average fatality is about 80 per cent. There is no eftectual rem- 

 edy known here. As a preventive perhaps complete isolation is the best treatment. 

 I have never known an animal to have the second attack. The disease resembles 

 measles in tlie human family, and the symptoms are very nearly identical. 



Fowls are dying at a rapid rate throughout this and adjoining neighborhoods. The 

 disease seems to be epidemic in form, and kills all on the i)remises. We know of no 

 remedy, but as a preventive we use white-oak-bark tea, made strong and mixed with 

 corn-meal, and set where the fowls have free access to it. 



Mr. 0. P. Hallis, Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri, says : 



My hogs are dying at present with a disease that is very fatal. Ten head were 

 attacked, and five «lied before I commenced treating them. I am now using strong 

 soap-suds, copperas, and saltpeter, and the hogs seem to be improving under the treat- 

 ment. They are beginning to eat again, and look much better. When first attacked 

 their heads and ears droop, they lose the use of their hind legs, and purge and vomit. 

 They sometimes vomit blood. The disease jjrevails extensively throughout this neigh- 

 borhood. 



Mr. J. Jameson, Greene Couutj^, Pennsylvania, says : 



Chicken-cholera seems to be permanently located here. It has not been so preva- 

 lent, however, the past year as ineviously. Remedies are numerous but not very satis- 

 factory. So far as personal observation goes, I think calomel is used as a remedy with 

 better success than anything else. 



Mr. Egbert W. Fritts, Lanes's Prairie, Maries County, Missouri, says : 



Cattle were quite healthy here until late in the fall, when a few cases of what is 

 generally termed the black-leg occurred. There were some half-dozen cases in my 

 neighborhood, all of which proved fatal. The animal generally lives from twenty- 

 four to forty-eight hours after the attack sets in. Before death stiffness occurs in the 

 hind parts, generally in one hip or leg ; the head and ears droop, and dullness and 

 stupor are observed. Fever, and a general quivering of the flesh, especially in the 

 hind parts where the disease seems to be located, also are observable. After death the 

 leg has a black or bruised appearance under the skin. Other parts seem natural ex- 

 cept the gall, which api^ears enlarged. Several remedies were tried, but all failed to 

 give relief. 



We have a disease among hogs that has killed about 10 per cent, of them in this 

 neighborhood. Some people term it cholera, some measles, and some lung-disease. It 

 is first discovered by the hog refusing to eat and lying around in a stupid condition. 

 Sometimes they will both purge and vomit, sometimes they will purge and not vomit, 

 or vomit and not purge, and sometimes they will do neither. After death the neck 

 and chest turn spotted, and the iusides are often quite pieded. Sometimes they appear 

 nearly rotten ; at other times nothing of an unusual character is observed. The dura- 

 tion of the disease is from one to three days, but occasionally a case will linger for a 

 week. After recovery from the first attack, when attacked a second time, a cough 

 sets in, and they usually die in a short time. Those that recover are hard to make 

 thrive or look well again, so it is generally decided here that but little is gained by a 

 cure. Several remedies have been tried — in fact nearly everything that could be 

 thought of — but nothing has proved very successful. I had several hogs attacked, but 

 lost none. I used turpentine as a remedy. I was compelled to drench some of them, 

 but generally I was able to administer it in slops or over their fet^d. I told my neigh- 

 bors of it, some of whom tried it and were successful, while others pronounced it a 

 failure. I believe if used properly and in time it is not only a preventive but also a 

 cure. From a tea to a table spoonful twice a day for two or thi-ee days is the way I 

 administer it. The disease seems to be contagious, as it is generally from seven to nine 

 days after it makes its appearance among a gang of hogs before others take it, and 

 then dozens may be attacked within a period of twenty-four hours. Dr. Grace, who 

 lost a hundred head by the disease, tried drugs, but finally gave the matter up and 

 considered the malady incurable. 



Mr. H. H. Cunningham, Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, says : 



In times past we have had foot-rot, so called, and paper-skin among sheep, and 

 cholera among fowls. Foot-rot to my knowledge has never originated" here, but has 

 been introduced by careless handling of sheep brought from other places where it 

 seems always to exist. The localities in which it develops itself without inoculation 

 are in low marshes or moist grounds where the feet are always wet or damp. It is 



