Richmond weekly palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1875-1905, 1875-12-09
FARM NOTES.


Hog ChOlerm-CAuSes and Urea tment.
Indiana Farmerl
This disease is singularly fatal this
season. In Boone county this State
we arc told by friend that the losses
are great. We have already reported
heavy losses by this disease elsewhere
in this and other States. The great
hog districts in Illinois are also great
ly stricken with the disease in its
most fatal form. Of the
CAUSES OF THE DISEASE,
a writer in the National Live Stock
Journal says they are obscure. bnt as
it is more prevalent in low and un-
drained localities than on high and
we'll drained soil. it is considered to
be due mainly from miasmatic and
malarious emanation. Confinement
in filthy sites. impure drinking water,
and want of change in food, ETC., are
also amongst the causes. We are
convinced that many animals of this
class are annually lost from the effects
of improper food or from living in an
atmosphere snrcharged with poison
Gus efduvia, the product OF animal or
vegetabl decomposition. Decompos-
ing substances, both animal and vege-
table, corn that has undergone a
change from long keeping or exposure
to damp, and which is loaded. per-
haps. with the sporules of poisonous
fungi; brine from the meat tub-these
and other similar substances are of
ten given to pigs as food. and in many
instances have been known to cause
very great losses. Much that we
have seen cOnvinces us of the neces-
| sity of more attention being paid to
the quality of the food of these ami
mails than is generally being done, and
also to the nature of their lodgings, as
we'll as the air they breathe.
TREATMENT.
The treatment is most unsatisfac-
| tory, owing to the acute nature of the
disease; in fact all remedies are use
less when not administered as soon
as the first symptoms appear, When
| the disease breaks out in a herd, the
animals should be kept on low diet,
have plenty Of exercise and fresh air.
In the early stage of the disease, cold
water sluicings, often repeated, have
proved beneficial, and so has the
method of burying In the earth in a
cool and dark place. For this pur-
pose hole is dug, sufficiently large
and deep to admit Mr.. Pork sidewise
(the legs being previously tied with a
soft straw band); the body is then COW
cred with sufficient quantity of earth
and grass turf. leaving the head free;
and in order to support the head, a
grass turf ia laid under the snout.
Before burial several injections con-
sisting of cold water with vinegar, are
thrown into the rectum.
In order to keep the surrounding
earth constantly cool, cold water is,
every half hour, to be let on it. The
animal remains thus buried until it
RECEIVERS, which, in successful cases,
happens within six, twelve or eigh-
teen hours. Hog cholera is treated
in many different ways, each having
its advocates. So me people have seen
good effects from bleeding in the
earliest stages OF the disease. Emetics
| and purgatives, in connection with
lukewarm injections of salt water with
vinegar. are very strongly recommen-
ded. In the beginning of the disease,
success has also attended the admin.
istration of an emetic, such as white
hellebore and il ecacuanah, of each
| two parts; tartar enetic one part; mix
| and give small pig a scruple, and
a larger one half drachm, thrown
dry upon the root of the tongue; this
to be followed up by purgatives and
clysters. Purgative to consist of
Epson salts, one, two and three oun-
ces, according to the size and age of
the animal, administered in broth or
swill from a hottie Exercise, fresh
air and sluicing the anima! over with
cold water are measures to be rec
commended Animals that recover
unless we'll treated, continue to suffer
| from partial paralysis, or from rheu
matte Inflammation of the joints.