The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-04
4 Doctor of Laws ON Hog Cholera.

Hog cholera is due to feeding on Soul
essence of the sourness being a vinegar
which is formed in the food after the
:tcokoiic fermentation has had its run.
The kirship of alcohol and vinegar is
{ sery close. as all distillers know, their
great art being to stave off the vinegar
Fermentation. Bakers know it also.
They strive to keep their dough from
being sour. The first effects of exclusive
feeding on this sour or vinegar fuod is
generally to produce constipation; next
diarrhea,, as the bowels, more Oh less
paralyzcd by the contact Of the alcohol,
vinegar, carbonic acid gas, etc, become
%distended, thickened, and pour off vary
ing quantities of glairey, gluey or watery
fluid that come mostly from the para
! lyzed cells coating the bowels.
After a while the blood becomes in
fected with the vinegar yeast, the red
corpascles adhesive and sticky, the fbrin
flaments. that naturally are very deli
cate and almost invisible under tie mi-
croscope, become thickened into massive
threads, which aggregate more or less.
forming skeins, clots or plugs which
catch on the valves Of the heart. Thes,
fbrin filaments sometimes aggregate
into long concretions that run for sev
eral inches, blocking up the blood vesselA
sometimes plugging up the smaller yes
sells completely. The heart meantime
automatically beats harder to overcome
the obstacle, and if the vessels are weak
they rupture near the obstruction and
the blood pours out under the skin, it
this is the site of the plug. and makes il
look red almost like a case of scarlet fa
yer. Again, from the p%aralyzing infu
ence of the intestinal gases, there is, if the
animal lives long enough, a paralysis OF
the hind legs more or less complete. The
hog will bunch up its back and draw tho
feet together underneath. In worse
cases it will move by it's forefeet while
the hindfeet drag.
Internal organs are subjected ts intes-
nal hemorrhage from the same clots
floating in the blood stream. If the ami
NAL lives long enough there will be found
in the lungs more or less breaking down
and tubercular deposits due to thu vine
gar yeast collecting there from thu. blood
stream. The appearances so much re-
semble those in consumption in man that
hog cholera has been termed a form of
| quick consumption.
Iii not contagious ave by contact and
hogs living among the dung of infected
hogs. Swine that have been fed on good
sweet corn by the side of and in differ
| emit pens from swine fed on distillery
slop, and suffering from hog cholera, have
not taken it-according to DR.. Salisbury.
And swine affected with it have been
cured by giving them good sweet corn.
IF hogs everywhere were fed on good
sound food hog cholera would be much
less. If the food is cooked thorough
~ the heat will destroy the alcohol
plants and the vinegar plants, which
some call bacilli, and there will be
much less danger of the disease. The
immunity Of swine fed on sweet, sound
food, some l.. say, is due 10 the re-
sultant health of the animal. resisting
the disease. Be this as it may. those who
are troubled with the hog cholera should
feed only good sound sweet corn well
steamed, and unless the cases are too far
gone they will find the disease: arrested.
OF course the animals should be protect
ed from cold.
So long as swine, and kline too, are
fed on swill, distillery slop, dangy and
dirty soured corn, or swill that is indi-
gestible, with orange or lemon peel,
trouble with the bowels must b. expect
ed, more or less severe according; to cir
cumstances. If those VINO are interested
doubt these statements it is easy to
prove or disprove them by trials ac-
curately conducted. Feed healthy swine
on distillery stop and nothing else for
three months, having other healthy
swine alongside in adjacent pens fed
with good sweet corn and water, and
then note the results. -Ephraim Cutter,
NJ. D., LII. d.. in American Agricultar'
ut