Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-12
sWINE.FEvER SYMPTOMS.
Valuable InfOrmatIon THAT WIN BE Appre.
oiated by Many Farmers. r.

clated by Many Farmers. -
I should notice at distance the linz
ber and tired movements OF the hogs
generally, staggering walk, legs pro-
jecting outward when standing still
On getting nearer could sec the hair
on some rough and apparently stand
ing on end, on others entirely gone;
dried appearance of the edges Of the
ears Of some, as If they had been froz-
en-; ends OF tails dead; some hogs.
breathing unusually fast. II the hogs
have any open sores it is swelled con-
siderably around them. By putting
the bare hand on a hog with swine
fever I could feel the high temperature
(the hog allowing me to do this would
be additional evidence); punching up
close to one another and getting under
litter on warm day; by cutting the
ears or tail blood would be absent or
nearly so; hogs castrated that have,
swine fever upon them will bleed but
very little during the operation and
swell considerably afterwards; more
than usually thirsty gradually losing
their appetite for food Y
The above symptoms, / am satisfied.
have been seen by hundreds Of your
readers; these following may not have
been: fresh, healthy hogs brought into
pen where swine fever is will soon
have their skins uneasy and begin rub
bing themselves; shaking their tails as
if to brush off flies. stamping their feet;
il they attempt to lie down in the bed.
ding where swine fever hogs have been
they will jump up again as if they had
laid down on a pile of thorns.
For further proof / should give
special treatment for swine fever to
half the herd when l should note the
rapid change OF those treated, viz. they
would walk stronger, eat better. leave
the straw piles, quit punching together
on a warm day, lie down anywhere in
the pen; the swelling around the sores
where they have been castrated would
reduce; the ears and tails show pres
ence of blood; there will be considera-
BILE difficulty in getting near to touch
them to feel the temperature; when they
can be touched the high temperature is
found to have gone down; the breathing
is slower and stronger; the hair on the
skin lies down and has slick appear
ance.
The above would be sufficient evi-
dence for me TO know that hogs had
swine fever. will state right here
that the treatment Of swine fever is a
final recovery only so far as swine fever
is concerned; hog cholera is not entire
ly got away with by treating this one
disease, but the treatment OF swine
fever alone amounts to the final recov-
cry Of 80 to SO per cent of all hogs
treated. other diseases standing in the
way of larger percentage of final re-
coveries. But you as well as others
may doubt the correctness Of my state
ments, theories or conclusions. can
only offer to convince you by actual
work in the cholera-hog pens, where
got my knowledge of hog cholera. /
am sufficiently confirmed in my views
to. stand fair test of them in this man
ner: will take herd or several herds
Of sick hogs of from 200 to 2, 900 head,
and divide the herds equally into two
parts. will treat one-half or do the
best can, but will treat more than one
disease; the other half can be left to
their fate or get well of themselves.
The conditions of the trial might be i'm.
proved, but as long as it is done in q
fair way and with a view to obtain
practical information on the subject oi
hog cholera / should have no objection.
William Belshaw, in Breeders Ga