128 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 

 Mr. F. r. SonoFiELD, Buffalo, Dallas Couuty, Missouri, says : 



Last year a good many liogs died here with a disease commonly called cholera. 

 Doubtless this was the disease in most cases, but not in all. This year a few stock- 

 hogs have died from the eifects of like diseases. Few remedies have been used, and 

 these with but jioor success. Turpentine, aslies, soft soap, &c., have seemingly checked 

 the disease in some few cases. 



Mr. William Zimmerman, James X-lloads, Somerset County, Peuu- 

 sylvauia, says : 



We are sometimes troubled with a disease known here as "black-leg" among our 

 cattle. lu most cases the animal indicates great pain, and generally dies within a few 

 hours. If the skin bo removed after death mortified spots are frequently found. I 

 once arrested the disease, after losing half my herd, by daubing their feeding trough 

 with pitch-tar, and feeding rosin mixed with saltpeter and sulphur. 



The only trouble I ever have with hogs is the result of a kidney disease. This I 

 generally cure by feeding corn boiled in strong lye. I also put wood ashes in the feed- 

 iug-trough occasionally. 



Mr. Ben.jamin M. Hall, South Eaton, Wyoming County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, says : 



What is called "hollow-horn" among cattle is frequent here. The remedies are to 

 slit the tails, bore the horns, and pour peppery, irritating fluids into the ears. When 

 this is done the animal generally recovers. 



A few winters ago a disease raged among our cattle for which we had uo name. 

 They lost the use of their limbs, and would swing their heads back and forth as if in 

 great pain and distress. They died within from six to twelve hours from the time they 

 were taken sick. I lost five head, and I believe every animal that was attacked died. 

 We were foddering corn-stalks at the time, and the coru-fodder that year contained an 

 unusual quantity of smut. 



What is called chicken-cholera is quite common. One-third of an ounce of calomel 

 mixed with food for twenty full-grown fowls has been used as a remedy with good 

 success. In neighboring towns, where fowls are kept confined in yards or pens, many 

 are dying. The disease is called roup, for which no remedy is known here. I am not 

 sufficiently acquainted with the disease to describe it. 



Mr. J. W. Stewart, Lancaster, Scliuyler County, Missouri, says : 



There are no diseases that amount to anything among our farm-stock except among 

 hogs, and they are so complicated I can scarcely describe them. Some of the animals 

 seem to be atllicted with two or three diseases at the same time. At least four or five 

 distinct diseases prevail in this vicinity. The first is the cholera, for which we have 

 no remedy. The second, " thumps," which is not very fatal. Indigo- water and cop- 

 peras is the best remedy so far discovered for this disease. Third, quinsy, for which 

 no efi'ectual remedy has been discovered. Fourth, bleeding of the nose. Fifth, enlarge- 

 ment of the upper jaw. In this disease the hair becomes coarse like bristles, and seems 

 to stand on end. Sixth, a very fatal disease, which kills the animal in less than six 

 hours. I have seen hogs aiitlicted with three different diseases in a pen containing but 

 eight animals. No remedy for the three last named diseases is known here. 



Messrs. M. K. Prime & Son, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa, say: 



The breeders and pork-producers of this locality have been troubled a great deal 

 with what is termed " hog-cholera." In pigs the first symptom of the disease is a 

 cough. Some of them, if let run a few days or a week or two, will be attacked with 

 the " thumps." This is the first stage of the fatal disease of cholera. The next symp- 

 toms are stupidness, loss of appetite, inclination to lie in their nests, great thirst, and 

 continuation of cough. Some will purge freely until all nutriment seems to have 

 passed from them. The urine becomes very red, and a slimy excrement passes from 

 the bowels. They live but a few days after these symptoms are manifested. The 

 symptoms of the disease are about the same in more aged and full-grown hogs. Our 

 opinion is that the disease is caused by feeding too much rich food, and then a sudden 

 change on to pastures. Overfeeding also produces disease. The diet of a pig when 

 first commencing to eat, and also that of the mother while suckling, should be of light, 

 easily-digestible food, containing sufficient nourishment to sustain them well. Should 

 the pigs take cold and commence to cough, give them a small amount of Glauber salts, 

 sulphur, and ginger, or something that will produce a similar eftect. Farmers gener- 

 ally use, and with considerable success, salt, wood-ashes, soapsuds, or small quantities 

 of soft soap. 



