DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 115 



"was attacked by the disease. I gave her one pound of Glanher's salts dissolved in warm 

 water, and every hour for six hoars aavc her a (piart of strong boneset tea, rubbed her 

 body and joints with a woolen rag to start the circulation of the blood, and in a week 

 after the attack she was able to raise her end, but gave no milk for two weeks. At the 

 end of three weeks she appeared as well as ever, and is all right now. This disease pre- 

 vails on sandy soil, where the feed is good and the water is pure. It is new to us, and 

 is alarming. No cattle have been attacked with it since they were taken from pasture 

 and shut up. 



Mr. John Armstrong, Coryell, Coryell County, Texas, says : 



Having resided on a farm in this county for twenty-two years, and knowing some- 

 thing of diseases among liorses here, I will try to answer some of j'our inquiries. Span- 

 ish fever, when I first came here, was the dreaded disease, but I think as soon as horses 

 are acclimated they are less subject to it, and it is also less fatal. Before the war, I 

 lost several valuable animals by it. Sym])toms: Moping around, or standing still 

 much in one place; very high fever; slightly swollen in the throat; great ditUculty 

 iu swallowing ; inability to lower the head to drink; stiffness in the hind parts and 

 tenderness in tbe loins ; a slight bran-and-water-looking discharge from the nostrils. 

 The duration of the disease, which generally terminates iu death, is from four to five 

 days, sometimes the animal lingers for several days. 



The first animal of mine that recovered was a large Tennessee mare, twelve years 

 old and iu fine condition. As soon as I observed the first symptoms of the disease I bled 

 her copiously, and iu three hours after she could drink water from a bucket by hold- 

 ding it up to her. In about five hours she ate a wheat-bran mash (one gallon), an in 

 twelve hours had a fine appetite, eating and drinking all I would give her. She was well, 

 but weak from the loss of much blood. She was never sick afterward, and died in colt- 

 ing, at the age of nineteen. Of the second case, a wild, unbroken four-year-old gelding. 

 I bled him till he staggered, put water up for him iu a trough, and sheaf-oats, and left 

 him loose in the lot, as he was too wild to drink from a bucket held by a man. He re- 

 covered at once from the disease, but, like the mare, shed off his hair until his back 

 and sides were naked. Since then I have lost none. Seeing the remedy at page 39 of 

 the Agricultural Report for 1869, 1 have used it with entire success, greatly preferring 

 it to bleeding, which weakens so much that the animal is unfit for service for some 

 time after. Many here believe the Spanish fever and the so-called epizootic to be the 

 same. However that may be, animals having green, nutritious grasses, or a green 

 wheat field to run on, will not have either disease to hurt them. 



Mr. W. E. Grant, Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky, says : 



AVe are troubled moi-e in this immediate locality with the loss of hogs than any other 

 class of farm-animals, and mj^ observations have been confined chiefly to the progress 

 of the disease called hog-cholera, and as it relates more nearly to young pigs from four 

 to twelve weeks old. Among the first symptoms are shivering, slow and careful move- 

 ments, and a desire to remain almost constantly in the warmest sleeping plape they 

 can find. They eat very little. Iu those that are not weaned, and in some that have 

 been, a thick wax collects on the eyelashes aiul fastens the lids together. On opening 

 the lids by force the ball of the eye appears perfectly white, and is entirely devoid of 

 sight. The discharge from the bowels alt first is like thin wheat-flour dough, but to- 

 ward the latter stages of the disease becomes quite black, and has a very otlensive odor. 

 Coughing is very frequent — often one of the first symptoms. The attack lasts from 

 five to ten days, sometimes longer. Should any apparently recover they rarely ever 

 become of any value. 



No remedies have proved beneficial to young pigs, though many have been tried. If 

 the brood-sows were kept in perfect health the pigs most likely would not be attacked. 

 The most successful treatment for preventing the spread of the disease that has been 

 tried here is as follows: Remove all aft'ected ones from the drove as soon as the first 

 symptoms are observed. They had better be killed and bnried, but may be put in a 

 remote lot by themselves. Change the diet of the well hogs as much as possible ; keep 

 by them at all times a mixture of coal-ashes (seven parts) ground sulphur (two parts) 

 and one part of pulverized copperas. All the coal-ashes and fine coal that the hogs 

 will eat should be given to them. 



With all the light we haA^e on the subject we are still very much in the dark, and 

 some farmers have become so much discouraged in their fruitless efibrts to arrest the 

 disease when it once gets among their hogs that they have given up swine-raising in 

 disgust. 



Chicken-cholera has given much trouble to poultry-raisers here lately. The most 

 noli eable symptoms are drowsiness, disposition to remain all day on the roost, and 

 an active discharge from the bowels. A great many remedies have been used, but none 

 have proved of any permanent benefit. Five dro[)s of carbolic acid in a half gallon of 

 water for the fowls to drink seems to have arrested the disease for a time in some poul- 

 try-yards. 



