Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-27
4 Doctor of Laws on hog cholera.

Hog cholera Is due 20 feeding on sour
Kwill, grain or corn distillery slop, the
essence of the souruess being vinegar
which is formed in the food after the
alcoholic fermentation has had its run.
The llinship Of alcohol and vinegar is
very close. as al 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 food is
generally to produce constipation; next
diarrhea, as the bowels, more or less
paralyzed by the contact of the alcohol
vinegar, carbonic acid gas, etc, become
distended tlickened, 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
footed with the vinegar yeast, the red
corpuscles adhesive and sticky, the tibrin
flaments, that naturally are very deli
cate and almost invisible under the mi
croscope, become thickened into massive
threads. which aggregate more or less,
forming sBeina, clots or plugs which
catch on the valves of the heart. These
tibrin filamenLs sometimes aggregate
into long coBcretions that run for sew
cral inches, blocking up the blood vessels,
sometimes plugging up the smaller YES
sells completely, The heart meantime
automatically beats harder to overcome
the obstacle and if the vessels are veal;
they rupture near the obstruction and
the blood pours out under the skin, if
this is the site Of the plug, and makes it
look red almost like a case of scarlet fe-
Yer. Again, from the paralyZing 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 viii bunch up its back and draw the
feet together underneath. In worse
cases it will move by its forefeet while
the hindfeet drag.
Internal organs are subjected to inter
nal hemorrhage from the same clots
floating In tho blood stream If the ami
NAL 1veslong enough there will be found
in the lungs more or less breaking down
and tubercular deposits due to the vine
gar yeast collecting there from the blood
stream. The appearances 80 much re-
semble those IN consumption in man that
hog choiera has been termed form of
quick consumption.
1tisnot contagious save by contact and
hogs living among the dung Of infected
hogs. Swinethat have been fed on good
sweet corn by the side of and in differ
emit pens from swine fed on d;sillery
Blop, andsuffering 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. II tho food is cooked thorough
ly tho heat will destroy tho alcohol
plants and the vinegar plants, which
some call bacilG, and thcre will be
much less danger Of tho disease. The
Immunity Of swine fed on sweet, sound
food, some may say, is due TO the TT
sultant health Of the animals resisting
tho disease. BE TINS as it may, thosewho
are trouhled with the bog ohelerashould
feed only good sound sweet corn well
steamed, and unless the. cases are too far
gone they win find the dfsease arrested.
OF course tho animals slrould BE protect
ed from cold.
So long as swine, and kline, too, are
fed ON swill, distiIlery stop, dungy and
dirty soured corn, or sWil that is indi.
gestible, with orange or lemon peel,
trouble with the bowels must be expect.
ed, moro or lees severe according to cir
cunstaDoes. II those VINO are interested
doubt these statemsns it is easy to
prove or disprove them by trials ac.
curately conducted. Feed healthy swine
on distnery sIop and nothing elseA fo1
three months, having other healthy
swine alongside in adjacent pens fed
with good sweet com and water, and
then note the results. IBplrai1n Cutter
M. d., LII. D., in American Agricultur-
list,