Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-03
A Doctor of Laws on Ho. Cholera,

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Hog cholera is due to feeding on sour
swill, grain or corn distillerv slop, the
essence Of the sourness being Il vinegar
which is formed in the food after the
alcoholic fermentation has had its run.
The tinship OF alcohol and vinegar is
very close, us 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 sol The first effects of exclusive
feeding on this Soul 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, 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
corpuscles adhesive and sticky, the fbrin
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 skeins, clots or plugs which
catch on the valves of the heart. These
fbrin fla1nents sometimes aggregate
into long concretions that run for sew
eral 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 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 far
yer. Again, from the paralyzing infur
nee of the intestinal gases, there is, if the
animal lives long enough, Il paralysis OF
the hind legs more or less complete. The
hog will bunch up it's back and draw the
feet together underneath. In worse
cases it will move by it's f~orefeet while
the hindfeet drag.
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 t~ubercular deposits due to the vine
gar yeast collecting there from the blood
stream. The appearances SO much re-
semble those in consumption in man that
hog cholera has been termed a form of
quick consumption.
1T 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
ent 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 ! say, is due to the re-
sultant health Of the animals resisting
the disease. BE this as it may, those who
are troubled with the hog cholera should
feed only good sound sweet corn well
SOcd1ucu, dlu ulllcSS bIo Cases are 100 ldI
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, dungy and
dirty soured corn, OF swill that is indi-
gestible, with grange or lemon peel,
trouble with the bowels must be expect
ed, more or less severe according to cir
cumstances. If those who are interested
doubt these statements it is easy to
prove OF disprove them by trials ac.
curately conducted. Feed healthy swine
or 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 A%gricultu1.
list.
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