104 The Farmer's Yeterma/ry Admiser. 



will blow half a mile or more on the wind, and is with diflS- 

 culty destroyed in hog-pens, fodder, etc. 



Treai/ment ought not to be permissible, unless in a con- 

 stantly disinfected atmosphere. Feed well-boiled gruel of 

 barley or rye, or, in case these raise the fever, corn-starch 

 made with boiling water ; give to drink fresh cool water, 

 slightly acidulated with sulphuric acid. For the early con- 

 stipation give a mild laxative (castor oil, rhubarb) and in- 

 jections of warm water, following up with fever medicine 

 (nitrate of potassa and bisulphite of soda). If the patient 

 survives the first few days and shows signs of ulceration of 

 the bowels (bloody dung, tender belly), give oil of tui-pentine, 

 fifteen to twenty drops night and morning. Follow up with 

 tonics, and careful soft feeding. 



Prevention. Kill and bury the diseased ; thoroughly 

 disinfect all they have come in contact with ; watch the 

 survivors for the first sign of illness, test all suspicious sub- 

 jects with the thermometer in the rectum, and separate from 

 the herd if it shows more than 103^ F., destroying as soon 

 as distinct signs of the disease are shown. Feed vegetable 

 or animal charcoal, bisulphite of soda, carbolic acid, or sul- 

 phate of iron to the healthy, and avoid all suspected food, 

 places, or even water which has run near a diseased herd. 

 All newly purchased pigs should be placed at a safe dis- 

 tance, in quarantine under separate attendants, until their 

 health has been proved. 



TEXAS FETEE. 



A specific fever, rising in the low, malarious grounds of 

 the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, and communi- 

 cable to the cattle of the elevated lands of the same and 

 other States in a more fatal form. It is characterized by 

 enlarged spleen, profound changes in the blood, escape of 

 the blood-elements into the substance of the various tissues 



