Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-12
great. considering tho small saving that
can DO made.--barm, FtM ani Siocs-
Hog Cholera.


Hog cholera has existed i'm Western
North Carolina as long us the oldest in.
habitants can remember. It attacks tho
hogs that are running on the range in
tho fall about the time the mast falls,
and the animals are about starved for
want OF food, having lived through the
summer on tho roots of trees, worms,
grubs, birds eggs, snakes, frogs, anu
such small prey, scarce enough at tho
best, as we !, or moro truly rs i'll, as they
GOULD when tho poor supply had been
exhausted. Whom there is no mast tho
hogs die of starvation, but it is called
cholera all the same, as when the mast il
abundant and thoy perish OF tho fever.
which is also called cholera. This dis.
case is no doubt contagious and tho
germs of the contagion may lie ON tho
ground where diseased hogs have died.
or where the buzzaris may have carried
it after having gorgcd themselves on the
carcases. In going through tho woods
the past few years largo number of
skeletons OF dead hogs have been seen.
several lying near together, whore n
bunch of thom have hcrded, and all have
persisted. The disease has been SO preva.
lent Of late years that mot enough hnyo
boon left for sccd," MS large range
owner has observed, and although pork
can DO raised in this State for two or
three cents pound, yet it sells cvory
winter for ton to fifteen cents, and -
0Oc, 900 or j, 900, 900 pounds are brought
IN from the West every year. / havo
made good pork this season for cost of
only two cents pound and get ton
cents for it. One litter from one SOW
madc 700 pounds of meat and brought
SO. My pigs have had no chol-
era among them, although dead
hogs could be found in tho woods
all around, except two small ones
which were left to feed on tho mast and
took the disease. Was it contagion or
the mast which caused the discasc2 NV
belief is that the hstringcnt, highly cnr-
bonacoous acorns and husks of chostnuts
produce diseased condition of the in
tcstincs which greatly favors tho action
OF the abundant germs lying in the soil
or spread by the air or ruins, and tho
hogs, being sickly, quickly take the
disease. Hogs pennod and fed on milk,
hoi ed potatoes, bran, corn, or peas aro
not Affected. The disease is tortainly a
disorder of the liver, as tho hogs that
die ana even those few which recover
have their livcrs filled with liberated
spots, sometimes still unhcaled in those
that do not die but pine and remain only
half grown until they arc fed for pork,
and leaving hard spots where they do
heal in the animals that finally recover
sufficiently to be fattcned. The diseased
pigs generally have the lungs namcd
and hard in spots, and coughs consider
ably even for some time after they seem
to have recovered. There can DO no
doubt of tho disease having its real
origin through unhealthy feeding which
subjects the hogs to the contagion which
is always existing in the soil. the water,
or the air. So far no medicine has boon
found able to cure this discnsc, although
some quack preparations nro in the
market rs specifics warranted to cure nil
cases. Usually the disease has advanced
near TO fatal termination before it is
discovered. -Me,o York Tins.