Some Animal Diseases. 
BY 
Drs. Glover, Barnes and Kaupp. 
Introduction. 
This publication is intended as a bulletin of information and in no 
sense a scientific treatise of subjects under consideration. 
According to recent statistics there are something over $50,000,000 
invested in livestock in the State of Colorado. There is probably no 
place where livestock of all kinds is generally more healthy. The 
loss we suffer is not so much from the ravages of any one or several 
contagious diseases, as it is from the aggregate loss from innumerable 
things, such as accidents, colics, pneumonia, poisonous plants, etc. 
Most of this loss is attributed to either ignorance, or carlessness and 
is preventable. 
This constant loss of valuable animals, to the farmer and stock- 
man must be figured as just so much taken from the profits, and in 
the end means success or failure of the enterprise. The most casual 
observation at once suggests the importance of education of the farmer 
and farmer boys, on the care and management of livestock, the recogni¬ 
tion of the more common diseases, and vastly more important than all 
—how to prevent them. 
This bulletin of information deals with a few conditions that seem 
to be of the most importance to stockmen of the state, just at this time. 
In it we hope to throw out a few hints that will be easily understood 
and of real practical value. 
Sore Mouth Disease of Pigs and Calves. 
(Necrotic Stomatitis.) 
By Dr. Geo. H. Grover. 
During the last fifteen months this disease has been a veritable 
scourge among hogs in Colorado. Calves and other species of animals 
have not been much- affected. The name “sore mouth disease” is 
rather misleading because the disease is not always confined to the 
mouth. 
Cause: The cause of this disease is a germ and nothing else can 
produce it, although improper food, dirty and unsanitary pens are in 
a way responsible (predisposing causes) for it. To grow a good crop 
of corn it is necessary to cultivate the crop and furnish other favorable 
conditions. In the same way, having the germs of disease planted, the 
disease is sure to develop if conditions (filth, exposure, lack of exer¬ 
cise, etc.) generally favorable, are existing. Experience has shown 
that the saying—“Anything is good enough for a hog,” is a great 
mistake. Within the last year many examples have come under our 
observation where farmers taking exceptionally good care of their hogs 
have escaped and others in the same neighborhood have lost all the 
small pigs they had from this disease. 
The germ of disease getting into a slight wound or sore anywhere 
on the body, or in the stomach, or bowels, will grow and destroy the 
