Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1897-05-14

they can be rapidly assimilated and ma
ture will soon overcome the lesion if she
only has the tools to WORK with.
With the hog in this disease the def
cheney is in the cell salt of iron. There
are certain atmospheric and electrical
conditions that tend to weaken the elastic
fibers of the skin and corrective tissue
and thereby close the pores. and il the
functions of the skin is thus arrested, the
kidneys, lungs, glands and mucous men,
ira duty or disease will result as it does
in "hog cholera" and hence these organs
are so often found affected in this disease.
Iron molecules it is we'll known are car
riers of oxygen and when they fall below
the standard. the blood is not able to car
~ enough oxygen to all parts of the body
to properly sustain life without increas-
ing its speed. hence we have what is call
ed fever, which is nothing more than ma
ture trying 10 eliminate the waste matter
from the system.
become deficient such as phosphates of
lime and potash and the chlorides of pot
ash.
The deposit found in this disease is a
peculiar substance of new formation and
IS not a specific poison. Analysis has
proven 1t to be waste matter-the dead
cells of the body-together with albumin.
GUS substances in a state Of ferment and
decomposition and may be found in the
areolar membrane between the mucous
muscular coats OF the intestines and other
organs where the disease has located
itself.
desire to say it is useless to dissect u
hog after death in order TO find out the
cause of the disease. You may find the
cause of the death but you will hardly be
able TO trace the causes which led up to
these destructive changes.
Among the direct or exciting causes are
keeping many hogs in narrow or close
quarters. some are thus overlaid or over
heated and then suddenly chilled while
feeding. Feeding swine on the ground
in the mud or in troughs where mud and
filth is Of necessity eaten with the food,
as this condition always causes typhus
among people, so it will cause blood pol
sonlng and septic disease among swine.
Too rapid change of food as from poor
feed to good feed and from good to rich
feed the consequence being that the ex-
cretory organs, the liver, lungs, kidneys,
glands and skin fail to carry off the effete
or waste matter, as fast as it accumulaies,
occasloning the poisoning of the blood
which constitutes the disease. Thus it is
that young shotes are most subject to it
and it is most common among swine that
have been taken up in the fall and put
suddenly on rich, heavy feed, before the
system has been accustomed to the
change. In summer time overheating by
exposing the herd to very hot sun with
out shade or exposing to cold, chilly,
rainy weather, without shelter or worse
than all, permitting them to lie IN old
straw stacks and manure piles, or similar
close quarters, from which they come out
reeking with heat, and if it is chilly such
exposure is almost sure to bring on con-
gestion and inflammation of the lungs.
Impure drinking water into which the
DRAWINGS Of the barn yard run, or that
which is foul from refuse or stagnant
matter will produce malignant disease in
swine. From all the variouS cases men
toned they may all be summed up in
unwholesome conditions of life in food,
drink and surroundings to which is added
certain atmospheric and electrical condi-
tions, which produce epizootic influences
and lowers the vitality and lessens the
natural resistance to encroachment Of
dlsease.-E. j. BROWN in Sioux Falls
Journal.