490 THE STOCK owner's ADVISER. 



Treatment. — A cure for this disease has never been found. 

 The advertised specifics are Avorthless. 'No cnre has ever been 

 found for glanders, cattle plague, and anthrax. 



ANTHRAX. 



The varieties in the pig are reduced to anthrax fever, gloss 

 anthrax, and anthrax with tumor. This disease is generally pro- 

 duced in the hog when allowed to run in pastures where cattle are 

 dying from anthrax, or from eating flesh of other animals that 

 have died of the malady. 



Anthrax fever is rapidly fatal in the pig, killing without pre- 

 vious manifestations of sickness. In mild cases there will be 

 sudden prostration, hanging ears, arched back, sullen appearance, 

 vomition of a coffee-colored fluid, continual convulsions, paralysis 

 of the extremities, rapid alteration of heat in the 'body, highly in- 

 jected mucous mem'brane, followed by death. 



Gloss Anthrax. — In this form there is great swelling of the 

 throat, pharynx, larynx, and tongue. The parts become gan- 

 grenous, an exhaustive diarrhoea sets in, accompanied with a dis- 

 charge of blood, and speedy death. 



Anthrax with tumor is rare in the pig. "WHien it does occur, 

 the tumors form below the parotid gland on each side and be- 

 tween the lower jaw and wind-pipe. The tumors are very pain- 

 ful to the touch. There is no treatment for this disease when it 

 occurs in the hog. It rarely occurs in this country, but is preva- 

 lent in India and Africa. In India it is termed '' Loodiana Dis- 

 ease " in Africa ''Horse Sickness." 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



This disease is not often found in swine, but they are not 

 exempt. They generally contract the disease by drinking milk 

 from tuberculous cows. The animal Avill present all symptoms of 

 tuberculosis as shown in other animals. For further information 

 on tuberculosis, see chapter on this subject under Diseases of 

 Cattle. 



