SWINE TROUBLES. 
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once, and as I had been corresponding at the time with Drs. 
Williams and Moore, of .Cornell, about my terrible afflictions 
up in Clinton County, I crated two young ones which showed 
signs of the trouble, but strong enough to stand the journey. I 
expressed them to Dr. Moore. I was satisfied that I had hit 
the nail on the head now. The pigs were shipped on July 
19th, 1897. On July 22d, I received the following letter 
from Dr. Moore, saying: “The pigs arrived last night, and 
when taken from the box crate they ate with a relish. They 
are unsteady in their walk, otherwise appear to be very well. 
They will be kept under close observation until further symp¬ 
toms develop.” After one month’s anxiety for further informa¬ 
tion, I received the following welcome letter, dated Aug. 18, 
1897. “ One of the pigs you sent us died from chronic hog 
cholera on July 30th, and the other died this morning. After re¬ 
ceiving them they improved for some days and I thought would 
recover, but now they are both dead. There was no paralysis in 
excess of that found in hog cholera.” 
Being satisfied now that this Keeseville herd was infected 
with hog cholera, I wished very much to know if Mr. M.’s herd 
was not the same, for I could discern no difference in post¬ 
mortem lesions. So on Nov. 1st, 1897, I made a post-mortem 
on a hog recently dead, secured a portion of the lung, liver, 
spleen, kidney and intestine, cured them as well as I knew 
how and sent them to Dr. Moore. 
On Nov. 4th I was rather disappointed to receive the fol¬ 
lowing letter: “ I am sorry to say that after all your precautions, 
the tissues were badly decomposed when they arrived here. 
They were evidently infected with putrefactive bacteria before 
they were packed. The intestine suggested in its appearance 
hog cholera. It may, however, be some dietary disorder.” Un¬ 
satisfactory and all as this last venture proved to be, I gathered 
some consolation that the intestine suggested “ hog cholera ” 
and claim yet that this disease invades the premises of 
Mr. M. 
We consider our Clinton County swine troubles to be con- 
