138 DISEASE AMONG SWIXE AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



its sight, and tlien wander aimlessly around until it starved to death. These warts 

 made their api)earance on the eyelaslies and about the hills. Copperas-water was 

 freely used, .and all the adults saved, liut the younijf chicks were not benefited. In 

 fact, they were not much cared for, as they were a cross between the common fowl and 

 Brahmas. Had it occurred anion;^ the fiill-bloods, in all probability th<>y would have 

 heen saved. lu all other respects the chicks were in good health, as they liud an ex- 

 cellent appetite. 



Mr. George W.. Minier, Minier, Tazewell County, Illinois, says : 



Our chief trouble hy way of disease is with swine. The disease is known as cholera, 

 but doubtless the cause of it is an intestinal worm or parasite. Sometimes the lungs 

 are allected. From the tirst the animal refuses food, it is mopish, coughs, and some- 

 times has what is vulgarly called " thumps," i. c, shortness of breath with quick beat- 

 ing sides. One of our best remedies is indigo dissolved in water. Our domestic fowls 

 are aflected much in the same way, aud people give the di.sease the same name. Our 

 more hardy and early varieties, such as Dominique, Game, &c., are seldom sick, and 

 it may be that our finer varieties brought with them the germs of the disease. 



]\Ir. R, II. Lice, Duvall's Bluif, Prairie Count}-, Arkau.sas, says : 



The principal diseases affecting cattle in this county are known as dry and bloody 

 murrain. Dry murrain, which is supposed to be caused by insufficient supply of water, 

 is cured by large doses of calomel. There are many other remedies for it. We have 

 no successful remedy for bloody murrain, and very few animals attacked by it re- 

 cover. 



Horses are seldom affected with diseases, but last summer a neighbor lost five head 

 Avith a malady jjreviously unknown here. The animals were taken with a limping in 

 the fore legs, but recovered from this in a few hours, when a high fever set in. Tlie 

 horses did not lose their .appetites, but took feed liberally. Every case, and there were 

 a good many in the neighborhood, proved fatal within from three to five days. Many 

 different prescriptions were given, but they all failed to give relief. The animals did 

 not appear to be much distressed at any time. They generally died very suddenly 

 and without a struggle. 



Fowls have what is called chicken-cholera, a disease which is almost invariably 

 fatal. The liver is generally found to be very much enlarged. I have tried calomel, 

 quinine, rhubarb, cayenne pepper, copperas, sulphur, and indeed almost everything 

 else, without success. 



Mr. James Bowlden, Will's Point, Van Zandt County, Texas, says : 



Most horses, but particularly young stock two years old, are, in the winter and 

 spring of the year, attacked with a disease similar to the epizootic, and many stock- 

 raisers think it one and the same disease. It is generally known here, however, as the 

 distemper. The symptoms are cough, swelling of the glands of the neck, and a pro- 

 fuse dischJirge from the nose of a thick, green-colored matter. It is sometimes fatal, 

 but riirely so, and the animal often recovers without any help. All that seems neces- 

 sary is good warm stables and careful feeding. Spanish fever attacks manj' animals 

 brought in from other States. All imported animals are subject to this disease until 

 they become thoroughly acclimated. 



Cattle are subject to a disease called murrain, which generally proves fatal. Various 

 remedies have been tried, but with little success. Imported stock (short-horns) are 

 subject to a disease called by some Texas fever and by others Spanish fever. The dis- 

 ease is very fatal, as but few animals survive. No satisfactory treatment or remedy 

 has been found. 



Hog-cholera seems to be more fatal than any otlier disease affecting farm-stock. 

 The symptoms .are loss of .appetite, blindness, «lullness, and weakness in the loins. 

 Kerosene-oil and turpentine have been used quite successfully as a remedy when admin- 

 istered during the first stages of the disease. Many suppose the cause of the disease 

 is from worms in the kidneys, as these organs are found, after death, to be more or 

 less affected. Chicken-cholera is also quite prevalent and fatal. We have no pre- 

 ventive or cure. 



Mr. Ja:mi3S AV. Terrell, Quallatown, Jackson County, Xortli Caro 

 lina, says : 



Here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, by far the greater part of the in- 

 come of the people is derived from the sale of horses and cattle, particularly the lat- 

 ter, while hogs, sheep, and poultry contribute in a smaller proportion. As we work 



