pentine, ammonia, and camphor, with about a pint of milk-warm water. Always 

 drench throiij^h the month — never throngh the nose. Tlien bnrn tar, feathers, woolen 

 rags, scraps of old leather, &,c., under the nose. If this treatment is given nine cases 

 out of ten will recover, if the horse is able to stand upon his feet when it is com- 

 menced. 



Both dry and bloody murrain are very fatal to cattle in this vicinity. The best 

 remedy for the first is a strong tea made of the common may-apple root, and for the 

 latter "saltpeter and gnaiacum. 



Cholera is the most fatal disease affecting hogs. The best remedy we know here is 

 equal parts of gnaiacum and copperas and .Jerusalem oak seed, say a tablespoonful of 

 each mixed in slojis sufficient in quantity for live or six head of hogs. This has proved 

 a good preventive as well as a ciire. 



Cholera is also fatal among all our domestic fowls. The best remedy I have tried 

 is pulverized mustard-seeds. No particular quantity is prescribed, but it should be 

 given freely. It will be found a cure as well as a preventive. 



Mr. A. A. EuDY, Knob Lick, Saint Francois County, Missouri, says : 



There are but very few, if any, diseases affecting horses, cattle, or sheep. Our main 

 trouble seems to be with hogs and chickens. We have tried many remedies, some of 

 which have proved of some value, and others of none whatever. It appears that every 

 disease affecting either hogs or chickens is called cholera. Some of the swine are taken 

 with a cough, and a swelling about the glands of the throat and neck, and generally 

 live from one to ten days. Others have what I would call the measles. The skin be- 

 comes very red, and if they do not die, but on the contrary should recover, it will re- 

 main so for months. The following remedy, if administered in time, will be found an 

 almost certain specific: Two and one-half pounds flowers of sulphur, one and one-half 

 pounds pulverized copperas, one-half pound black antimony, and one pound of well- 

 slaked lime. Mix well together, and then add one pound to a sufficient quantity of 

 corn-meal or ship-stuft' for twelve hogs. Put it in small piles on the ground, so that 

 every hog will have a chance to get at it. As a remedy, it should be given every day 

 until the hogs recover. After that, a like amount should be given once a month as a 

 preventive. The hogs should, also, have all the wood-ashes they will eat. A good dis- 

 infectant may be fouud in lime. After slaking, take a broom, wet it in the lime-water, 

 and sprinkle it over the beds of the hogs, until the ground is white, and about the 

 coops and roosts of the chickens, if they are affected with cholera. 



Mr. W. W. MuRrnY, Madelia, Watonwan County, Minnesota, says : 



With the exception of " blackleg," so-called, among cattle, I have never known of 

 any epidemic disease among farm-animals in this vicinity. This disease carries off 

 each spring, generally in March and April, a number of calves. There appears to be no 

 remedy known for it here. I never knew of a case being cured. The loss in any one 

 herd is not very large, but the annual average loss in the county is jirobably $500. 



Mr. E. B. Cassilly, South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio, says : 



There is no disease prevailing among farm-animals in this locality except cholera 

 among hogs. This disease has been very prevalent in this neighborhood and adjoin- 

 ing counties during the past summer, but has somewhat abated. Very few farmers 

 have escaped its ravages. Probably one-half the last spring crop of pigs have died, 

 and also a large proportion of the older hogs. I hear of one farmer who lost one hun- 

 dred fat hogs. Not one in fifty recover. The symptoms are drooping of the head and 

 ears and loss of appetite, heavy breathing followed by thumps, and purging and vomit- 

 ing. The disease terminates fatally in a very few days. I have never known one to get 

 well. Remedies without number have been tried, but without producing any good 

 results. At least one thousand hogs have died in this township (Madison) during the 

 past summei", and yet no remedy of any value has been discovered. 



Mr. L. T. Current, Brownsville, Saline County, Missouri, says : 



Several diseases prevail among hogs here, but they are all called cholera. In some 

 cases the symptoms are similar to those of lung-fever in the human family. Post- 

 mortem examinations in some cases show the lungs to be destroyed, and in others gorged 

 with blood. In other cases the hog is aftected with vomiting and diarrhea. These 

 symptoms indicate cholera, a disease which generally proves fatal, in many cases, 

 within a few hours. It is my opinion, as well as the opinion of some of our best stock- 

 raisers, that most diseases of hogs are caused by worms, for upon examination their 

 intestines have been found to not only contain worms but to show holes in various 

 places, which were evidently made by them. 



The remedies used are as various as the opinions of the farmers concerning the cause 



