130 DISEASE AMONG SWINE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



partial success. We have seen sheep in Veruiont aud Massachusetts badly affected 

 with this disease as well as in our own State. 



A disease prevails in some i)arts of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and probably in some 

 other States, that destroys large numbers of lambs annually. They are sometimes at- 

 tacked by it at the age of three weeks, but oftener after they are two months old. 

 The stomach, liver, and gall seem to be the only parts aftected. There have been but 

 lew cases in this county, and we have no name for the disease. It is supposed by some 

 to be caused by eating a poisonous weed, and by others by overfeeding on grass when 

 too young. Wool is sometimes found in the lamb's stomach. The )>est and fattest 

 lambs are fretjuently destroyed by the disease, with but little duration of illness. 



Heavy losses are also annually sustained by diarrhea and djseutery. Proper food 

 and management have moie to do in preventing and curing these diseases than most 

 others. The treatment {ind medicine that have been most successful are the same as 

 those used in the human family for like diseases. A statement giving the best reme- 

 dies and treatment of all these diseases would be received by thousands of sheep-raisers 

 with great profit and many thanks. 



Mr. A. G. Gakdner, Eutlaud, Meigs County, Ohio, say.s: 



All farm-animals in this locality are comparatively healthy and free from epidemic 

 or prevaling diseases. With fowls, however, the case is quite different. The los-ses 

 have been heavy, and complaints are heard from every neighborhood of the terrible 

 ravage of what is termed chicken-cholera. Whole henneries have been depopulated. 

 No form of treatment appears to check the progress of the disease. I have never lost 

 a fowl myself, and yet I raise from seventy to one hundred annually. I give my fowls 

 full farm range, change my cocks each year by getting eggs from the best possible 

 breeds, and select the best formed stock from these. They have high out-door roost- 

 ing-places most of the season, but in cold, winter weather I confine them in warm, 

 clean, well-ventilated roosts. 



Mr. X. B. Petts, Liucolii, Beutou Coimtj', Missouri, says: 



There is no disease existing among any class of farm-animals except among hogs, and 

 among this class of stock there?are several diseases, viz., measles, lung-fever, cholera, 

 and worms. In this vicinity and throughout this county measles has prevailed to an 

 alarming extent, and probably more hogs have died from it than from all other diseases 

 combined. But nearly every farmer designates the disease as cholera. In measles the 

 hog refuses to eat, lies much of the time in his bed, goes often to water to drink, but 

 not to wallow, and grows poor very fast. The hog has a slight hacking cough. Ijf the 

 eruptions break out thickly all over the body the animal generally gets well ; but if 

 they do not, or after breaking out they should go back, the hog dies. There is a very 

 offensive stench about their sleeping-places. Everything kept in a drug-store, and in 

 quantities to astonish and alarm an alopathic physician, has been given, and the won- 

 der is that so many have lived. All kinds of food have been given, but with no appa- 

 rent beneficial results. The only thing claimed to have done any good whatever was 

 a tea made from peach-tree leaves, limbs, or bark. This brings the measles out thick, 

 and if the hog has a dry bed and is kept from water the chances are in his favor. The 

 bowels should be kept oiieu, and not more than live or six should be conhned in the 

 same jjen. 



For worms we give a teaspoonful of turpentine once a day for a week. From one- 

 half to two-thirds of all hogs affected with diseases have died. I doubt if any have 

 died of cholera. 



Mr. E. D. Hushing, Eock Point, Independence County, Arkansas, 

 says : 



A disease commonly called hog-cholera has prevailed extensively throughout this 

 section. The symptoms are vomiting and purging, and death in a very short time. 

 About two-thirds of those attacked die. Tliose that recover dwindle away and be- 

 come almost worthless. Various remedies have been tried, but whether with any 

 beneficial results is not known. A neighbor of mine, Mr. William H. Dood, after losing 

 about one-half his herd, used tar water, which seemed to check the disease ; at least he 

 lost no more. The disease made its appearance in my herd in last September. It 

 pi'oved more fatal among my pigs and shoats, though I lost some bacon-hogs. I fed 

 sulphur and copperas in swill, and in about four weeks the disease abated. I lost 

 about one-tifth of all my hogs. The disease is still raging in some localities. 



Dry murrain prevails to some extent among cattle. If given in time, the following 

 remedy is said to be successful : Two dozen eggs well beaten and mixed with about 

 an equal quantity of soap-suds. Milch-cows seem more liable to the disease than other 

 classes of cattle. 



