Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-07-22
Hog Cholera.

There having been large amount OF
money, expended by fthe, Government
and by individuals in order to stay the
ravages of the disease known as hog
cholera, with evidently but little Sue
cess, and presuming that anything look
ing towards a rational treatment OF the
disease will be acceptable to your read
ers, l send you this for publication il
you think it merits a place in, your
columns.
The suggestions and recipe for the
treatment of the disease are the result
of ten years careful observation OF
cholera in the great hog belt where the
disease is seen in all its many forms.
Without any comment on the various
theories of what the disease is, Cat least
for the presently or the numberless nos
trums atloat for its cure. will give
! such general directions for the manage.
ment of hogs infected with the disease,
and also the combination of medicines
found most effectual in my hands and
that of others, of staying the ravagcs of
this most fatal scourge.
In the first place hogs attacked with
cholera must have constant IRE, il any
one expects to control the disease and
save the hogs.
Throwing them such food as happens
to come to hand, or giving any medi-
cine that is on trial in such way that
they may get it or not, trusting to luck
for the result, will end in the loss OF the
hogs. On the contrary, they should be
protected from the sun in summer and
the cold storms in winter, and not be
allowed to congregate in large num-
bers so as to become overheated, and
be changed, if possible. to fresh quar-
tiers every two or three days.
They must be shut away from all
water in cold weather, except such as
is given them in their troughs with
their food and medicine. For food
they should have thin slop, and all
grain should be withheld till they are
we'll recovered. Shorts and little
clean middlings or boiled potatoes
mashed in their drink, or dishwater, is
the best. rfsf.t. u.
This they should have regularly three
times day with a little salt in it, and
in such quantities as that they will eat
! it all up and not leave it standing in
their troughs to detompose.
The sick ones should be separated
from the apparently well ones, that
they may have extra care, though every
hog in the lot should have the medicine
once q day. The sicker ones should
have it three times day in moderate
quantities with their slop.
Each hog at the outset should have
from one to two ounses of Glauber:
salts dissolved in the food, and shoatl
N proportion to their age; and thii
should be repeated every night ant
morning till the bowels are we'll cleared
| )f their unhealthy contents, and will
5 lhe salts, enough of the following mix
I ;ure to color their drink slightly, say {
. pint to hundred head, varying tn,
3 AMOUNT according to the age, givn!
9 more if tae disease is severe. Whel
8 past drinking they can sometimes b.
!, saved by drenching them with a table
1 spoonful of The mixture with littl
A water every morning and night, bein,
9 ,areful not to strangle them. Here |
J, he recipe have found most ellectua
!, n modifying, controlling and curing tn
7 disease, and it may be given with grea
)eneit as a preventive; Hydrochlorat
)f ammonia, two pounds; chlorate Q
: >otasse, one pounds; sso!ve in one ga
3 on of hot water, and when cool ad
!. ,ne pound or pint of the best muriate
u incture OF iron. This mixture shoul
never be made or kept in any metalli
+ Vessel or mixed with milk when giyer
!. A careful and thorough use OF thl
8 .emely, coupled with the use OF tn
Y salts as indicated above, continuing th
y salts occasionally if the bowels are nj
J, lree, will with almost a certainty say
from one half 10 three foprths OF th
y hogs lost by cholera. -L..,t
s 1t will be noticed that all the ingr'
u tients in this mixture contain CHLORINE
and are standard remedies for the di
eases OF tho human subject closely allie
? to what is called cholera in hogs. 4
= some future time may have somethir
q to say as to what the disease is. etc,
- In the last ten years have bred ar
fed quite large number of hogs in
Q district where cholera is prevalent, al
o have not lost twenty dollars worth fro
o either that or other diseases. &C
Western Rtra'.