Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-10
UNION AND AMERICAN.
FARM AND GARDEN.
DISEASES IN sWINE-HOG CHOL-'
ERA.


DISEASES IN swINE-HOG CHOL-
ERA.
It is estimated that bacon costs all
consumers at least four cents a pound
more than it would if farIters knew
how to prevent cholera and ether CON-
mon diseases in swine. Within the
last forty.eight hours the Rriter has
seen two grown hogs, one Of them fat,
dead Ly the side Of the highway near
the city, which doubtless died from an
attack Of the malady called cholera.
As this disease is contagious and may
spread indefinitely to the grSt injury
of the public, we shall offer no apology
for discussing the subject at some
Iepgth, that this numerous class Of con-
9tagions may be more generally under
stood, and lproper measures TAKEN to
lexterminate the same A physician
writing for the Prairie Farmer says he
has dissected over one hundred hogs
O that have died of cholera since 1860;
ana from all he can learn hesregards
Q the disease as the same is typhoid fever
in man; but he docs not claim to know
what causes the affection in the human
system, or in that Of swine. Professor
James Law, Of Cornell University has
carried. his researches much fuyther.
In Letter written to the Hon. George
W, Schuyler, Senator in the New York
o Legislature, dated lJarch q, 1875, and
published in the Al5aays Arglts, Of
eAprH ., treating of contagious diseases
g among faEm stock, we find statements
OF great interest II. their direct bearing
onrshe meat .productionzof Europe, the
United States and all British colonies.
Mr.. Law was an eminent Veterinary
surgeon in England before he ae-
sceptsd a prpfessQrship IN Cornell. Uni, /.
Yevsity, and wrote much for the agri-
cuI turaI press of London. Being a.
close student, and a man ofscienc6, We
nave confidence in the soundnesss of
his opinions and deductions from Oh:
served facts. He says f'Its seems re-
credible that a email; country ike
Great Britain, which had lost in thirty
years no less than four hundred and
fifty million dollars in gold by coAta-
sgious animal plaques, none. of. which
are indigenous to her soil, should. have
but half learned the lesson yet; but
such is the sad truth" GO e..
5instead Of pursuing this able com
manicatiOn which lies before. u.s.: we
shall strike at once for a plain 1eTpost-
ton Of truthsrelgting to hog cholera
in Tennessee, close at home, as IL. the
summer of.1S73. The lying germs Of
::yellow fever and proper cholera are not
indigenous tUIBe soil and CLIMATE of
Nashville or Memphis; nor Is there
reason TO believe that the germs Of hog
cholera f5urished in Tsnnesse6. forty |
years ago. Itis.a foreign malady an
troduced from abroad The most COM
mon diseases in the lungs Of horses, in |
the liver. spleen and kid5eys Of hogs
sheep and cattle, spring from living |
organisms -proPagated by germs.
Hence, aIIH5ufectea animals should Be |
separated from those which are sound
and free from parasites, whether mi
croscoFio or otherwise Hogs dyinga
fr5uE cholers SHOULD be buried at once
.,Ss7r parasites do not die Instantly on
the death Of the animal or. plant on
which they subsist. Ignorance and !
great car6lessness disseminate plaques |
Of all kinds farand wide To the public |
injury. o..
g As sulphur EilIs the itch inseet and
that (Which ferns the scab ii sheep /
mixed with salt, ashes and coEa meal,
itis perhaps tie best. remedy for hog /
cholera, ver11iform lung and liver COM
plai1t.s characterized by cough in !
.ls1rses, cattle and sheep, as Well as in-I
swine AT this season Of the year, af-
Ter q bard winter, stock require consid-
cradle attention, and the fsee use Of!
salt and sulphur is commended. Thee
contagious diseases Of the worst troPi-
cal climates are. now living in our
cities, villages, ana on many planta-
ton. The extinction Of these mala-
dies is both practicable and desirable.
-PGL3ic sentiment should sustain an ef-
fort IN this direction, or a pestilence
like themurrain in Egypt may sweep |
over the Iand, making no distinction
in the mammalIa, from the child that
draws infected milk from its mother,
70 tie colt, calf, pig and lamb, equally
infected 10y maternal nourishment.
Civilization intensiics hereditary dis
eases. Old civilizations have died.