388 Diseases of Swine, 



CHAPTER yi. 



DISEASES OF SWINE. 



Gefiieral Bemarks on Diseases of Swine, 



Hog Cholera, so-called^ and its varieties, 



Charbon in Swine — Malignant Anthrax — Carbuncular 

 Disease — White Bristle, 



Contagious Pneumo-enteritis ; Bed Soldier ; the Blue Dis- 

 ease; Purples, 



Malignant Epizootic Catarrh. 



Apoplexy and Staggers. 



Coughs, Colds, Quinsy, and Inflammation of the Lungs, 



Diarrheal Diseases — Scours. 



Ague Cake— Milt Swelling— Splenitis, 



Leprosy, 



Trichinosis. 



Hydatids of the Kidneys— Kidney Worms— Lard Worm^, 



Measles, 



The Mange, Itch, or Scab. 



Dice. 



' GENERAL REMARKS ON DISEASES OF SWINE. 



If the remark is correct, which we quoted on the au- 

 thority of leading agriculturists (page 342), that the sheep 

 is unusually healthy in the United States, no one will say 

 the same in reference to the hog. On the contrary, he is 

 liable to so many and such extremely fatal diseases, that the 

 loss from them is estimated at many millions of dollars an- 

 nually, and in some sections of country they render the 

 business of hog breeding a very precarious one. 



Considering the amount of capital involved, it is extra- 

 ordinary that these diseases have not received closer study at 

 the hands of experts. Several of them are contagious or 



