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of disease. Copperns is jjencrallygiven, also sulphur, turpentine, and manyothcr things. 

 The best preventive so tar found is black antimony and uiaddei". It should be given 

 about once a month. I use it and have never lost a hog. I also give my hogs coal and 

 ashes, which also has a tendency to keep this class of farm-stock in health. 



Fowls are also alHicted with a disease similar to cholora in hogs. As a remedy we 

 use petroleum, onions, and common red-pei)per. In the winter season these articles ar« 

 mixed with thin feed, and in the summer in the w^ater given them to drink. 



Dr. P. A. Faris, London, Laurel County, Kentucky, says : 



Hogs are the only stock that we have much trouble with. They sometimes have 

 dysentery, which I think is caused by eating clover, grass, and weeds, without a due 

 proportion of grain, greasy slops, and salt to make digestion perfect. During the win- 

 ter many are lost with mange, asthma, &c., which is caused by their sleeping in old 

 straw and maniue heaps. A few die from i>lenro-pneumonia. But those who provide 

 good dry leaf-beds for their stock, and feed them dilt'ereut varities of food, lose none . 



Mr. Simon Doyle, Eiishville, Schuyler County, Illinois, says : 



In 1876 I lost 87 hogs by fever. They were invariably taken with a chill, followed 

 by stupor and fever. There were no signs of cholera in any single instance, or any 

 cough. Usually from four to six days, and sometimes from ten to twelve, intervene 

 between the time of attack and death. I used many remedies, none of which were 

 effectual in either curing or checking the disease. A large and strong sow, and the 

 last one attacked, was the only animal that recovered. Some of my neighbors had 

 hogs similarly affected. Others differed widely in the main symptoms, which were 

 coughing, and bleeding at the nose, and death in from four to ten hours. In some cases 

 ■worms were supposed to be the cause of death. 



Mr. A3I0S EiLEY, Xew Madrid, 5^ew Madrid County, Missouri, says : 



Hog-cholera, or " heaves," as some call it, is the most fatal of all diseases among 

 farm-stock in this county. It is more fatal among the younger than the older hogs . 

 Very few, if any, of those attacked recover. The symptoms are wheezing and cough, 

 something like the thumps in horses. The duration of the disease widely varies. I 

 have sometimes used corn, soaked in a solution of arsenic, with good effect. It is dan- 

 gerous, however, to give this to pigs and sows. If the disease once gets into a herd it 

 rarely stops until it cleans out (destroys) all the young hogs. 



Mr. Joseph Borders, Painstville, Jolinson County, Kentucky, says : 



Farm stock in this locality is seldom affected with disease of any kind. Sometimes, 

 however, that di-eadful and very common disease known as cholera gets among our 

 hogs and fowls and proves very destructive. Our hogs have escaped this year, but we 

 have not been so fortunate with our fowls. The disease is general, and prevails at all 

 seasons of the year. If there is any cure for it we have never been able to lind tha 

 remedy. As to its cause I am ignorant. The disease scarcely ever reaches those fowla 

 that are allowed to run iu the woods and have a wide range. 



Mr. Sidney Greig, Yermillionviile, La Fwyette Parisli, Louisiana, 

 says : 



Until within the last few years no fatal epidemic was ever known to exist among 

 our domestic animals. But now, on the return of the spring and summer months, we 

 have a disease which attacks horses and mules, and sometimes cattle and sheep, and 

 is very fatal. From the rapidity of its action there is rarely time to administer any 

 remedy, and if any is given, not knowing the nature of the disease, it is only a lick in 

 the dark — death is certain. The disease is endemic in its nature, confining itself one 

 season to a certain locality, when it will disappear, and the next season it will make 

 its appearance .several miles off'. I have been a careful observer of this disease, for I 

 have been one of the sufferers from it, and will give you as exact a diagnosis as I possi- 

 bly can. The symptoms are drowsiness, loss of appetite, and fever. As the disease 

 advances the animal becomes restless, and walks continually, although without seem- 

 ing to suffer any great pain until the last hour preceding death, when the agony is 

 intense and pitiable to behold. In the last stages a profuse sweating ensues, and the 

 animal shakes as if in a congestive chill, and soon fall and dies. A iwsi-mortem exam- 

 ination reveals the whole internal organs a mass of congestion, and the heart, liver, 

 lungs, and intestines covered with a yellow, jelly-like substance. Neither a preventive 

 nor a cure has as yet been found for the disease. The only preventive seems to be 



