The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-04-27
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=. .rn CuRE or HOG CHoLERA.

~.UsE AND CURE OF HOG CHOLERA.
probably the direct losses of American farmers
- heen greater in hogs the past two or three
ors than in any other kind of stock, or III any
- croD A correspondent of the CINCINNATI
Gazette discourses on the subject OF hog diseases
generally, and gives Ieneu1 "" sn " mas
found effective:
Among some of the causes which produce chol-
era NAV be mentioned extreme ana sudden
changes ; long hot and dry weStner' as IN the
Year 1s74: long dry and cold, as in the winter
* followed by the unprecedented rains
which fell during the Summer of 1875. These
rains caused an extremely rapid growth of grass,
making it swashy," innutritious, and defective
in the Qualities calculated to excite the secre-
tons and producing hillary arrangements aud
congestion in an already overtaxed liver that
had suffered from an unparalleled long cold
winter forcing the blood from the surface une-
oualizing the circulation and eentering an undue
amount to the internal viscera of the hog
Another cause is found in hogs occupying one
field or pen from year to year, without cleansing
or blowing under the accumulated filth, having
the hog constantly ''rung," denying him taste
or smell of fresh earth, or the use of an instinct
that teaches him in bilious derangements To
search for bugs, worms or vegetable roots the
natural excitants of stomach, liver and bowels
Another cause is scanty feeding muddy stag
nant and filthy water, obliging them to allay
discharges.
When the disease first made its appearance a
few years ago, it was characterized by many
symptoms resembling cholera in the human be-
ing, even watery discharges, emaciation and rap
I'd waste. Its most usual form now is loss of vi
tality, emaciation and drying up, with OCCASION
al paralysis or an entire suspension of secretOns
no discharges; with an inflammatOry state of
the liver, alphabetically affecting head, throat
and lungs.
The health of the hog is much dependent on a
healthy state of the liver, and that organ mainly
governs the secretOry system. But, at the same
time, it does not render it proof against the in
PRODUCTION of poisOns; for cholera may be con-
tracted through the lungs or stomach. While
some lots have suffered much from combination
of the causes which we have enumerated, render
ing them highly susceptible to infection, others
that have been treated in accordance to the in
stlncts OF their natures are almost proof against
diseases.
One of my neighbors had two fine lots in sepa-
rate fields some distance apart, composed of old
er and younger hogs. Out of the older lot be
bad already lost eighteen head in two months.
On one occasion went with the hand employed
to feed the younger lot, and on seeing a pig
among the more thrifty ones, poor and sickly, |
asked the young man why he did not remove it,
for / thought it had the cholera. He said that
it had been sick about three weeks, and that he
had spoken to the owner about it. But the
owner had answered him by saying, "Let it
alone what will die, will die at any rate" His
hogs did contract the disease from that one, and
he lost many, when five minutes time would
nave sdNOO ulH BIleI anu money.
PREVENTIVE AND REMEDY.
One pound madden, n. sulphur, l 10. resin,
l fb. saltpetre, rs. black anthony, ounces as
afetida. Pulveri1e and mix we'll; feed table
spoonfuls to five hogs three times per week in a
little salt, more bran and ashes. Commence
feeding before the cholera gets into your neigh
borhood, and continue until it ceases from the
same; and if, during the time and before your
hogs are properly indicated, one should take
the disease, Immediately remove it TO a dry pen.
Give one tablespoonful of this mixture in one
gallon of water or table-slops once per day and
in order to make the cure doubly sure take one
half pint soft soap, tablespoonful pine tar, l
ditto Of lard warm and mix well, and drench
the hogj and my word for it, it will cure ninety
nine out of the hundred.
fyou will treat the first two in this
manner, the disease will spread no further. And
you must remember that as fast as the disease
spreads, or in a ratio to the number infected, its
malignancy increases until it will almost defy |
control. If the season should be wet, keep your |
hogs on short Timothy pasture if dry, on the |
best growth clover You have, and these val |
liable helps. Sweet milk alone is said also to be |
good.