The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
Hog Cholera.

While this dread scourge is rob6tng so
masv Illinois farmers of the fruits of their
labor. il will be well to consider everything
looking toward relief from the plague
resident of Champaign county publishes
lengthy article in the last issue OF the Cham
paign Gazette upon this subject, from which
we make the extract given below. Hog
cholera and its cause has attracted great
deal of attention in this country, and the Hi
nois State Board Of Agriculture some time
since offered an award of $500 for cure tor
this disease, reservlng its decision as to which
ia hest for five wears. The writer of the arti-
Gle given here has reside d for twenty years in
a hog ana cattle growing district, and has
riven considerable attention to the subject.
He sums up his opinion and observation in
the following SIX points:
l. Hog cholera has its origin in malnutra-
tion, that is, In u too strongly corn or carbon
aceous diet, to diet deficient IN albuminous
matters, and the phosphates, which results In
Iessening the amount of cell tissue, diminish.
ing the nervous and muscular force, thereby
weakening or destroying the constitution,
and making the creature less able to bear up
under the accidents of his situation or resist
the lnclemcnces fthe season.
2. AS general statement, hog cholera IS
confined to the corn growing districts OF the
south and west the disease being OF rare oc.
currence east of the Alleghenies, unknown
to England and continental Europe, not com.
mon in slaughter yards and seldom trouble
some IN the dairy districts, where mix ana
whey are largely fed, nor where, Few oeing
kept together these few are carefully FED or
sheltered.
3. Imported swine of every breed, and
notably Berkshire swine and their immediate
descendants are VIGOROUSLY exempt from the
scourge, and escape disease under circum
stances where home-bred animals, and those
dating their foreign ancestry years back, are
swept out of existence in a few weeks.
A. Imported swine and their immediate de
scendants and homc.bred swine, fed in slaugh
ter wards. on sour milk and whey, or on &
diet more or less rich IN albumen and the
phospates, have larger amount OF cell It's
sues, and their meat shrinks less in the pc:
and their bacon less in the frying pan, thar
the flesh of the swine fed on corn exclusively
s, Imported swine and their ancestors hav
ing been fed otherwise than on an exclusive
ly corn or carbOnaCeous diet-that IS, one II
which the heterogeneous and carbonaceous e!e
ments are equally represened-having har
der constitutions, and larger proportion o
cell tissue, the logical and reasonable INFER
ence Is that the condition depends on INT
amount of heterogeneous matter In the 1000
and the further inference is, that the proven
ton or cure of hog cholera depends upon
change of food, and that change must lie il
the direction of changing the carbonaceou
one of corn to one of more nltrogenou
character.
G. In the case of the discovery Of the symr
toms Of the disease, or It's active appearanc
in herd eff SWINE, tho best means OF allayin!
them, and in mild cases of curing the sicl
ones, is fresh beef or the muscular tissue
ANIMALS of every eatable kind includin
crackhngs and scarps from the smoke-houSt
fed in reasonable quantities. supplements
by placing within easy reach Of the patient
trough, protected from the weather, cor
:ainlng a mixture, in equal parts, of sal
Stacked lime and unleached wood ashes.