Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-06-09
Cause and Cure OF Hog Cholera.

Probably the direct losses of Amer
lean farmers have been greater in
hogs the past two or three years than
in any other kind of stock, or in any
farm crop. A correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette discourses on the
origin of hog diseases generally, and
gives remedy which he has found
effective:
Among some of the causes which
produce cholera may be mentioned
extreme and sudden changes; long
hot and dry weather, as in the year
1874; long dry and cold, as in the
years 1874 and 1875; followed by
the unprecedented rains which fell
during the summer of 1875. These
rains caused an extreme rapid growth
OF grass, making it washy," innutri-
tlous and defective in the qualities
calculated to excite the secretions;
and producing hillary arrangements
and congestion in an already over
taxed liver, that had suffered from an
unparalleled long, cold winter, fore
ing the blood from the surface, I'M
equalizing the circulation, and cen
tering an undue amount of the inter-
nal viscera of the hog.
Another cause is found in hogs oc-
cupying one field or pen from year to
year, without cleansing or blowing
under the accumulated filth, having
the hog constantly "rung," denying
him a taste or smell of fresh earth, OF
the use of an instinct that teaches
him, IN bilious arrangements, to
search for bugs, worms, Or vegetable
roots, the natural excitants of stom-
ach, liver, and bowels. Another
cause is scanty feeding, muddy, stag
nant and filthy water, obliging them
to allay their thirst often from the
draining of their own discharges,
When the d scasc first made its APP
pearance, few years ago, it was
characterized by many symptoms re-
sembling cholera in the human being,
even watery discharges, emaciation,
and rapid waste. It's most usual form
now is loss of vitality, emaciation,
and drying up, with occasional paraly-
sis, or an entire suspension Of secre-
tons; no discharges; with an inham-
matory state of the liver, sympathet-
ically affecting head, throat, and
lungs.
Preventive and remedy: - One
pound Of madden, one pound sulphur,
one pound resin, ono pound saltpetcr,
one pound black anthony, three
ounces Of assafetida. Pulverize and
mix well; feed three tablespoonful
to five hogs, three times 4 week, in a
little salt, more bran and ashes. Com
mcnce feeding before the cholera gets
into your neighborhood, and con-
tinue until it ceases from the same,
and if, during the time, and before
your hogs are properly medicated,
one should take the disease, imme-
diately remove it to 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 Of soft soap, one table spoonful
pine tar, one ditto lard; warm and
mix well, and drench the hog; and
my word for it, it will cure ninety
nlne cases out of the hundred.
IT you will treat the first one or
two In this way, the disease will
spread no further. And you remem-
as fast as the disease spreads, OF in
ratio to the number infected, its ma
lignancy increases, until it will al
most 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 are valuable helps. Sweet milk
alone is said also to be good.