Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-21
From the Southern Field and Preside. Bloody Murrain.


 DR. D. LEE-You copied into vour de- partment ot the first number of the South ern Field and Preside, an article from the Selma Ala. ) Sentinel, stating the preva- i.nce in that section of bloody murrain.- ou ask If some gentleman in the district where the fatal malada exists will send von description of its most prominent svmn- toms. Presuming that any information upon the subject will be acceptable, and pending that you may receive from the in iected quarter, l send you what knowledge l possess of the disease.
 cannot give you description of mur- rain from observation, for have never sow case of it; but make synopsis of that given by those who have.
 In the July, August and October num- bers of the Albany New York Cultivator of 1889, there are several letters from prac- tical and experienced farmers in various sections of the country, treating of the subject, describing the disease, and suggest ing preventiges, but offering no remedies.
 From Missouri, where the disease pre- vailed~to a very great extent that year, Mr. A. H. F. Payne writes to the Cultivator. and gives it as his opinion that there is no positive, untaiiing cure for it. but that it may be occasionally cured. He describes 1t as most painful, dreadful disease;;" the suffering animal passing blood through the urine and bowels, or bleeding internally But those that discharge suffer less than those that bleed internally types, however, being equally fatal. He further states that the spring and fall are the times at which it prevails most The poorest or fattest are most liable to be attacked, though there are exceptions. That fat COW or OK, or poor one, to become hungry, and then very full, is apt to take it; or change of food from green to dry, or from dry to green, will often cause the disease He gives no remedy, but recommends as pre- oeattce, regular feeding where stock is kept enclosed
 Judge Jonathan Warren, of Ashtabula county, Ohio, a very intelligent gentleman and practical farmer, in letter to the late Judge Buel then editor of the Albany Gull tivator, says: ''The bloody murrain is oc- casioned by on extended and orerfowinq qaU, affecting the liver, and causing the leeches or bloodsuckers therein, and the flow of blood outward or inward-and death fol- lows"
 He further states that the disease prevails more in new countries than in old; and vastly more with cattle that run in the woods than those in enclosed pastures. And that the old and young, fat and lean the work OK and the milk COW, all take it. bp boI +p ub bo wards examined, bW had ertended gollS.
 Judge Warren gives no remedy; but says he has used the following prescription as a prepentjpe for eighteen or twenty years, dur ing which time he had lost no cattle by murran:
 !" Food oshes gipen in equo7 quantities of salt d the usaal lime of solting the cohle."
 He also argues that the gall is some time in accommodating, and that necessarily it must require some time to diminish; and few messes of salt and ashes year should not be depended upon, nor cure expected when the liver is rotten.
 Mir. Leander Sacket, of Monroe county, Michigan, in letter to Judge Buel, gives it as his opinion that there is no remedy for this disease, when once taken, but gives the following as preventive:
 Make a trough, and put it where your cattle can have daily access to 1t, and mix equal portions of slaked lime and salt, and keep it always there"
 For thirty years he had followed this prescription and lost but one COW by this disease; previously he lost from one to six l teen annually.
 l have never seen but two remedies Sug- geste1 for the cure of mulrain. The first was bountiful supply of tar, down the throat. The second, two doses of pound of sugar each, mi.red sciM acater The lat ter Is said to have cured the disease in its last stage.
 If, as Judge Warren remarked, the dis ease is occasioned by "an extended gall y doubtless some remedy might be found etficacious. But an ounce of preventive is worth pound of cure, and nothing can be easier done, or cheaper, than the simple preventives here given.
 1 will state that for nearly twenty years 1 have acted upon the suggestion of salt ing plentlfully all my cattle, old and young; and have never in that time lost COW or OK from any disease. During the preva- fence of the sore or black tong ue, last sum- mer had but one COW affected, and that but slightly. 1 washed her mouth with a strong decoction of tobacco. kept her few days in dry pasture, and she was we'll
 There seems to be great reluctance ge- nerally on the part of planters to write for publication their experience in diseases of stock, or farming, but if they could be pre- vailed on to do so, doubtless much light would be thrown on this malady, and others.
 Very respectfully yours,
 H. RAIFORD.