The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-03-02

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iOf cures gf p%raveutiyes AMI. NJ course
ne many opinions regarding fause nnd
cure u v NOT ~ III strange that many
opinions as Nv tha cause ~ me ~ enae
should be- held by those ~ I'll familiar
With ", Tor 70 presents ~ many various
forms nc different times and places that
no veil grounded facts bearing upon IT,
origin have ~ yet been established. II
V true that many theories have been sd
vanoed. vet not me but may have some
well.iounded objection brought against H..
H. r. y claims that IN exclusive corn
diet Il the immediate cause Of the disease
From this ! must dissent, although there
ere many facts relating 20 the elements
contained in corn M articles of diet which
when used "a physiological facts, would
seem 10 establish the fact beyond n doubt
that II IL corn that causes the disease.
II this Is 80, why Is II that the disease
was not known years ago Corn has
been used as food for hogs ever since this
broad expanse Of prairie and forest be-
gan to be q home for civilized man yet
hog cholera il Of comparatively late APP
pearance. II corn causes II, why should
we find it out at 80 late a date? Again,
why Is ii that hogs that are kept on tim.
Der farms, although kept up and fed on
corn exclusively, escape the disease al
most always, while those on prairie farms
are swept away in a week? In every
case where my attention has been called
to hogs infected with cholera, and the
disease spreads to any extent, | have no.
ticed that certain localities escape almost
entirely, and that the disease in its prog
ress stops at a belt of timber.
These facts are not isolated ones, but
such as | have noticed from this state to
Missouri. That the disease presents diff
ferent phases at different times is evil
dent. ! know one man who saved his
hogs by the use of wood ashes at one
time, after they were badly affected. A
while after, another lot in the same field
was taken, and in spite of every curative
agent, every one died. So far as my ex-
perience goes, | have noticed the greatest
mortality among hogs when cold nights
succeed warm days. When / first began
my observations upon the cholera, /,
like B. F. j., thought that corn was the
cause of it. Subsequently, my own ex-
perience in feeding corn to hogs cured
me of this-at least 50 far as to attribute
it TO corn solely.
| have never known of an instance of
cholera among hogs that had clean quar-
tiers, and were fed regularly, kept warm
and dry, although fed exclusively on
corn, and if they had pure drink. l do
not attribute the disease to any one
cause alone, but a combination of them.
To put a hog in a cold, wet, muddy
place, expose it to hot days and chilly
nights, allow it to pick its food from the
dirt, and drink from some filthy pond or
hole, is enough to make a hog sick, and
to invite every known disease hog flesh
is heir to. The hog is naturally a far
more clearly animal than many give it
credit for, and l do candidly believe that
more attention was paid to the natural
disposition of the animal, and more care
taken of it, that we should hear much
less Of hog cholera.