116 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 

 Mr. L. S. MOKROW, Duvall's Bluff, Trairie Ooimty, Arkansas, says : 



Cattle have been subject to two diseases here, both of them sliowing symptoms sim- 

 ilar to dry-murrain. Various remedies have been used, but with very little success. 

 Some say that turpentine, used interually and externally, is a good remedy, but I know 

 of but very few cases where any benefit was derived from its use. Home-made lye- 

 soap has been used in a few cases with slight success. 



Hogs have died largely of a disease called cholera by many farmers, but by examin- 

 ing those that died the trouble was found to be caused by worms about three-fourths 

 of an inch iu length. These worms were fouud iu great abuudauce in all the hogs 

 examined. 



Chicken-cholera has prevailed here for the past three or four years, and many fowls 

 have died during that time. The symptoms are about the same as elsewhere. 



Mr. M. J. Saddler, Dexter, Stoddard County, Missouri, says: 



Hogs are seriously afflicted here with a disease called cholera. When affected with 

 this disease they appear mopish, rr'fuse to eat, have high fever, break out in lumps, 

 bleed at the nose, and die soon, I have kuowii a few cases where poke-root tea affected 

 a cure, but the best remedy is cq^ual parts of logwood and blue vitriol, steeped aud ad- 

 ministered to the animal. 



Mr. E. T. Bently, Tioga, Tioga Couuty, Pennsylvania, says : 



The hog-cholera is unknown in our county. The oaly disease affecting hogs iu this 

 -county is an old malady, knpwn as throat distemper. Sulphur aud ashes placed in the 

 trough where they eat, once' a month, is a preventive, but not one farmer iu twenty 

 takes this precaution. 



Mr. Horace Martin, Corning, Holt County, Missouri, says: 



I have been a resident here nine years, and during that time no disease has prevailed 

 among farm-stock, except a disease among swine. Raising corn aud feeding cattle 



aud hogs is the principal industry in this 

 vicinity. During the last three years the 

 losses among hogs have been greater 

 than heretofore within the circle of my 

 observation. There is a singularity 

 about the spread of the disease which to 

 me is unaccountable. Some years a far- 

 mer will lose nearly his entire stock, 

 while his neighbor adjacent will remain 

 entirely exempt from it. Then in a year 

 or two the conditions will be reversed. 

 I will give jon the statistics of the last 

 three years of this aud adjacent sections, 

 numbering the farms 1, 2, 3, &c., my 

 locality being farm No. 1. Two years 

 ago at this date (September 1) N. Rosa- 

 lins, No. y, lost 210 liead of hogs out of 

 his feeding pens. He did not count the 

 young shoats, which were not confined. 

 No. 8 lost oO, but iu a tenant's pen at his 

 own feediug-yard he lost over 200 head 

 more. Farm No. 5 lost 3G ; others none. 

 Last fall No. 1 lost 57; No. 2, 80; No. 3, 

 45; No. 4, 64 ; No. 6, between 30 aud 40 ; 

 others none, or very few. This fall, iu a 

 herd of 150, I have lost none. Neither 

 has 2, 3, 4, and 5, while 6, 7, aud 10 have lost over 100 head. These were fatteniug- 

 hogs, not shoats, and weighed from 200 to 3.')0 pounds. 



The characteristics of the disease are various, although in numerous cases no symp- 

 toms of disease were observable. In the morning I would tiud hogs dead that the 

 night before I thought were well ; yet on examiuation I would liiul the lungs, intes- 

 tines, and skin very red and engorged with blood, but I supposed it was a natural 

 consequence of their dying with all their blood in them. Unless the hogs are quite 

 young the liver is always found ulcerated and otherwise diseased. Tiie tirst symptom 

 noticed is reluctance to leave their beds. Rout them out aud they walk as though 

 they were stiff. Their urine is highly colored or bloody. Possibly tliey may bleed at 

 the nose; then they are sure to die in less than twenty-four hours. When found dead 



