Report Volume 4-5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...any class of farm animals in this comity during the current year. MISSISSIPPI. Amite.--Horses are affected occasionally with glanders and hogs with cholera, of which they generally die. Cattle are very healthy. About one-third of those attacked by disease die. Bolivar.--The cuckle burr causes great fatality among hogs, due to the fact that the seed contains two germs, one sprouting the first year and the other the year after. The succulent sprouts are devoured by the hogs and the rough rind adheres to the throat, thus often killing a great many. The unrotted lint on cotton seed also is very destructive. After overflows the pools of rotted fish cause great disease among the hogs, but this is not very serious if they are liberally salted. Calhoun.--Hog cholera has prevailed in this county this fall. It has proved fatal in every case that I have heard of. I have seen but one animal that was affected, and it died in about thirty minutes after I saw it. It came by me on the streets of Pittsborough, panting as though it had been running, and crept under a house and was dead in a few minutes. The disease does not prevail over the county generally. It made its first appearance about 1809, when it made a clean sweep of all the hogs in the county. But since that time we have lost but few with the disease. One man has lost eighteen pork hogs this fall, but his is an isolated case. Chickasaw.--Hogs in this county were affected a year ago with a disease that was not understood by any one here. The animals became drowsy, were inclined to stand about in warm, sunshiny places, and in about seven days would break out in little pimples or blotches, and within about ten days from the first symptoms would die. The few that recovered shed all their hair, leaving a...