{"1": {"fulltext": "SF 973\\n.H94\\nCopy 1\\nii^ a^tiP uPaP a aPli MPt liP^ ii^ ^^^^M\u00c2\u00bbj ^P mPtfu^ uP-aP\\nMAR 12 jgoo\\nTHE CAUSE OF\\nHOG CHOLERA;\\nHow it is Created on the Farm,\\nAND\\nHOW TO PREVENT IT\\nIN A NATURAL WAY\\nWITHOUT MEDICINE UNO WITHOUT EXPENSE,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094BY\\nWILLIAM JAMKS HUNTKR.\\nThe Information You Have Been Looking for for Years,\\nYou will Find Between the Covers of This Bool(.", "height": "3517", "width": "2414", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF\\nHOG CHOLERA;\\nHow it is Created on the Farm,\\nAND\\nHOW TO PREVENT IT\\nIN A NATURAL WAY\\nwiiHOUT MEDiciNt m wiTHoyi mmi\\nBY\\nWILLIAM JAMES HUNTER,\\nThe Information You Have Been Looking for for Years,\\nYou will Find Between the Covers of This Book.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "L JUr r^ of COBgret%\\n__ ;i i n fid .it ^4\\nMAR 1 2 1\u00c2\u00bb00\\nPREFACE.\\nI ask you to please read the book from the beginning,\\ndear away some of those can t-be-dones from your mind, and\\nallow your brains to be useful to you. Allow them to think\\nabout real things and not blockade them with unreal things.\\nDo not judge the book by its construction, but by the facts it\\nstates and teaches. Remember the author is a farmer, and\\nthe book is written from experience, observation and records\\nof five years; also it is written in this form to break down all\\nthe superstition in regard to the subject that is in sight. Now\\nif you are a hog raiser I ask you to read the book through,\\nand do your criticising afterwards. Do not read part of the\\nbook and go to forming conclusions. But I ask you to read\\nit slowly and to the end, and then see if it has not to you the\\ntruth told.\\nNow the Farmers. 57957\\nSECOND COPV,\\nV io D\\nCttEBOKEE TIMES, PUBLISHERS.\\nCHEROKEE, IOWA.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE CAUSE OF HOG CHOLERA,\\nHow Created and How Prevented.\\n{Copyright, i:)00, by William James Hunter.)\\nThey have always been able to tind and rectifiy then- mis-\\ntakes, and when the trouble has been understood it has been\\nfound that the Preventative has stood in the way of a better\\nunderstanding of their business. And not with medicine.\\nMedicine is for accident. You would give medicine to your\\nhorse after he j^ot in the corn crib and ate too much corn, to\\ntry and save him. But it would be a poor thing to give it as\\na preventative. Better shut the crib door and prevent the trou-\\nble by carefulness. Think three weeks and see if you can\\nthink of a thing that medicine will prevent that could not have\\nbeen prevented with care in a more practical way. The pre-\\nventive in this case is what we want on the farm. The cures\\nare of secondary importance. We can afford to lose our\\ncures if we can become better at preventing. We do not\\nwant to run hospitals but farms. Now the combinations that\\nit takes to produce hog cholera strong enough to kill we\\nwould have found before. If that man that first yelled\\nthat the cholera comes in the air, could have been\\ncaught and tied up somewhere out of our hearing. But\\nas it was he got us to think it was as a ghost or a mist comes\\nfrom the air, coming through the country as a spirit, from no\\none knew where; had no beginning, nor no end; that we were\\nblameless and helpless; seem to like to come around about the\\ntime we had been feeding new corn awhile. So we tried to\\nhead him off there. We thought we would soak our old", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "corn and get rid of some hogs before that time. But it made\\nno difference. He would not be fooled. Well he got to be a\\nbad thing; so bad that I have seen good farmers box up their\\nhogs in a tight pen and cover it over. But still he would get\\nin.\\nI have have seen them feed medicine worth four dollars\\na gallon to keep him or her, whatnot ghost or devil, spook or\\nworms, lung fever, stomach trouble; whatever he would bring\\nalong. And he always brought them all. He would feed it\\nto keep it away. And this fellow all the time a telHng it\\ncomes in the air. So you see we have to find this strange\\nthing and give it a name. So we call it hog cholera. But\\nsome are not satisfied they say. There is a lot of them.\\nNone of us believe in witch craft; there are none of us believe\\nin spooks. We believe we are sane; we believe the air is pure\\nunless something has made it impure. We beheve that that\\nsomething could be found that has made it impure, because\\nwe believe in a beginning and end. We believe, then, noth-\\ning is traveling about in the air unless it started somewhere.\\nWe believe the bird started from its nest, we believe the smoke\\nthat comes from the chimney starts from a cause below; we\\nbelieve the man got his fever-ague from the swamp that he\\nlives by, that has filled the air with Poisons that act upon his\\nsystem in that way. We believe that this poison cannot injure\\nonly within a limited distance. We believe w^e can cause the\\nsmoke to come from the chimney. We gather the w^ood, we\\nput it in the stove, we strike the match, and by natural causes\\nwe have the smoke from the chimney.\\nNow when we feed new corn to our hogs is it poisonous?\\nOr does it act as the match and merely let off the Poisons?\\nNow if it acts nierely as an agent to cast out devils or Poisons,\\nand not as a Poison itself, what will you think? I believe we", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "will have to come back to our old belief that we used to have,\\nthat the new corn has something to do with this hog cholera.\\nAnd if new corn should be found to cast out devils or Poisons\\ninstead of casting them in, we will have to investigate what it\\nbast them out of. Well now we wall say the new corn is pure\\n.and sweet and good. It merely casts out devils and poisons\\niwhen fed to our bunch of hogs. So these devils and poisons\\nmust be in our bunch of hogs. Well, now, do not get scared\\nyet. It must be pried into no matter what it is. Well, with\\nthe track w^e have of him now we have him tracked to our\\nbunch of hogs. Well, now we will experiment a little. We\\nwill send the hired man to gather a load of new corn, and haul\\nit up side of the hog pen. Now we will run those nice, young\\nhogs in this pen after we have cleaned it out well, and we will\\nsee if we can cast out some poisonous devils. Now we have\\nthem, now go ahead with your new corn. Now we have been\\nfeeding new corn here to these hogs a long time and we don t\\nsee any signs of these devils or poisons coming out. Maybe\\nthere are no poisons or devils in nice young hogs; so let us run\\nin that old sow and see if there are any in her. Will we try\\nthese others any longer? Yes, we will run the old sow right\\nin with them. Well, do you think that if there is any devils\\nor poisons in her they will go into the rest when she gets\\nsome of our new corn? We will see. We know the others\\nhave none now, because w^e have tried them. Now let us\\nwait a few days and see what turns up. What, this quick?\\nWhy, its only been a few days since we put her in. Well, I\\ntell you the poisonous devils are coming out of her. How do\\nyou know? Because they are entering those others, and I\\ntell you they are raising hob with those others. Well, let us\\nlay low and see what they will do. There seems to have too\\nmany of them got got into that one there. He is trying to", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "vomit them out. See, they have killed this one. It must be\\nthey are not used to poisonous devils going down their noses,\\nfor you see they put their noses close to her and they likely\\nrun down them. Well, let us feed that shoat there some of\\nour cast out; go and get a few ears of it. Does he eat it.-\\nNo, he won t touch it. Well, we cannot get any of those\\ndevils or poisons out of him if he will not eat the cast out, and\\nhe has got too much of them. Well, maybe when they all\\nget out of the old sow, they will stop crowding into the shoats\\nso. I wi-h we had not started to cast them out in with these\\nshoats, and took her off in another pen by herself so the poi-\\nsonous devils could not have gone down those shoats noses\\nso. Let us take her out so they cannot get any more of them,\\nfor I think they have enough of them now. The old sow\\nlooks better now, anyway, since she got those poisons out of\\nher. We will keep on feeding her the cast out and she will\\nsoon be fat. Do you think the poisons or devils will come\\ninto her again? No, not as long as we give her plenty of\\ncast out, and keep her here alone, and not put another one in\\nwith her that has devils or poisons.\\nWell now, by representing new corn to be a cast out, in-\\nstead of a cast in of poisonous devils, we have tracked it to that\\nold sow. We have found out that there was no poisonous\\ndevils in the nice young hogs, but that the old sow was full of\\nthem; and that when we put her with them and feed her the\\ncast out. the poisonous devils left her and entered the shoats by\\nthe nose, and they quit eating the cast out and died But the\\nold sow kept eating the cast out and lived. Now we must\\nlearn and investigate something about this old sow. Do you\\nknow her.^ Just think if you are not very well acquainted\\nwith her; if you are not you must get so; you will learn to\\nknow her and learn how to cast out the poisonous devils right.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "after I have taught you to do this. But now, do not think\\nwe are trying to perform a miracle, we are merely tracking\\nthese devils and poisons with new corn, and our belief that\\nnew corn has something to do with them. Now don t say it\\nhas not, just yet, just because these poisonous devils come\\naround at other times. For we may find some other things\\nthat cast out poisonous devils. But let us follow this track we\\nhave. Now we want to find out something of this cast out.\\nWell, will pure, good tender new corn cast out poisonous devils\\nout of an old sow that has been found to have devils or pois-\\nons in her? We expect it to or we would not have expected\\nher to thrive and get fat. We know she must have the pois-\\nonous devils thrown out of her or she will not thrive. Does new\\ncorn make a hog start to thrive quick? Yes, well then it\\nmust be one of the best things we have to cast out poisonous\\ndevils out of a hog. Now this is good news to us, we don t\\nhave to pay four dollars a gallon for it, we can raise this our-\\nselves. Now we can say we have the new corn, the match\\nthat started the fire, and that we used it as we used the match\\nand that we put her in among these shoats, as we put the\\nwood in the stove. But we know how we gathered the wood.\\nBut we must find out how the sow gathered the poisonous\\ndevils. Well, in order to do that we must look back and find\\nher when she looked something as she does now, when there\\nwas no poisonous devils in her. You see we can see how she\\nought to look now, since we drove the poisonous devils out of\\nher. Well, she looked this w^ay, last spring, when she far-\\nrowed. For awhile she kept looking Hke this, but as her pigs\\ngrew, she began to look different; she got so she did not care\\nfor the cast out because it got dry and hard for her to eat.\\nNow she ought to have eaten the cast out, if she expected to\\nkeep the poisonous devils out of her; maybe the cast out had", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "lost its virtut^. Well she kept changing, so she must have\\nkept getting fuller of the poisonous devils. It was hot and\\ndn and her hide got dry and her hair looked dead, and she\\ncared less for the old dry cast out. The poies of her hide\\nwere mostlv closed; her pigs seemed to take her strength, and\\nyou see how she looked when we put her in with those nice\\nyoung hogs we used to have. Yes? Well, if that is the way\\nthey look when they have poisonous devils that will be better\\nthan to think thev are in the nice young hogs. She. the old\\nsow, ate the new cast out and it had its full virtue, and it cast\\nout the poisonous devils that had got into her through the long-\\nsummer. It cast them out into the others. They entered\\ntheir nostrils and tilled their systems full of poisonous devils.\\nIf it had not entered their noses and went down so fast the\\nnew cast out would have driven them away. But, as it was,\\nthey would .sleep with their noses stuck up against her and it\\ngave the cast out no chance, for a lot of them would not eat\\nit. But after we took the sow to another pen and separated\\nall the others, those that would eat the cast out became pure\\nfrom poisonous devils, so we see we have allowed our hogs to\\npoison themselves to death: we have been allowing one or\\nmore hogs to poison the herd. We know the nature of new\\ncorn; we can iind other things that act as a cast out of poison-\\nous devils. Now, what I tell you is this. An}- hog thai does\\nnot thrive for a long while, that when it begins to thrive is\\npoisonous to those that are with it: that new corn is not poi-\\nsonous, but merely casts off the poisons from the hog that has\\nbecome poisonous. But it is not careful where it casts them\\nto, so if you are a mind to allow them to be cast among your\\nothers, the poison will kill them. Rain, what does that dor-\\nIt helps some men raise a few hogs. It happens to be a wet\\ntime .when these poisons are let off.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Now as I tell this you have a part. Your part is to un-\\nderstand, and be sure you do understand. I act as the agent\\nto tell this and the truth, the cast out; you as the agent to\\nreceive and be righted by understanding; the outcome the\\ngood you will receive therefrom. x\\\\nd the cholera has no\\nplace There is no use of a man teUing you your house is on\\nfire if you won t listen to him. You would not know the\\nworld is round unless you have studied about it; so you do not\\nknow you have a right to kick me till you have studied this.\\nI have worked hard to be able to give you this information.\\nBut it is like a spelling book; it demands something of you;\\nyou must stud}^ it. If you have been expecting someone to dis-\\ncover a thing that has only one cause, as a poisonous weed or\\nstone or something in that Hke, that only had to be removed\\nfrom your pen, you see you would be wrong, because the\\ncause would be an unnatural one, and found long ago. An\\nunnatural cause in our business is easier found than a naiural\\none. Hog cholera, or what ever you call it, is caused from a\\nnatural cause, caused a natural cause, caused by unnatural\\ncauses that can be stopped in a natural way, if you begin at\\nthe beginning and not at the end.\\nI have written this in this form that it may be understood\\nmore aptly from a farmer s standpoint, that he will see that I\\ndo not twist the cholera around to fit the cause; that I am able\\nto show him his mistake when he has produced the cholera in\\nhis herd. Now here is some things we do. I will do a Httle\\nhog raising to show you how easy we raise the cholera as\\nwell as we do the hog. Twelve brood sows May ist. It does\\nnot matter what year if you do it this way unless providence\\nhelps you out. June ist. I am pleased. My hogs did all\\nright through May; I am looking forward to a prosperous\\nyear with my hogs. Now let me say a word; we are at the", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10\\nbeginning of cholera, the end will come in the Fall. July ist.\\nMy pigs are doing very well; the old sows are running down\\nsome; I have been feeding them plenty of corn. Aug. ist.\\nMy pigs have done very well through July; I believe I will\\nwean them. The old sows are not doing anything; they don t\\ncare for the old corn. I have been giving my pigs milk and\\nstuff on the outside of the pen so they are doing quite well.\\nSt^pt. ist. Through August my old sows have not done any-\\nthing, but the pigs are growing. The old hogs won t eat\\nmuch of the corn; it is so dry and hard they do not care for it.\\nOct. 1st. Through September my pigs have been doing fine,\\nand they are just growing like weeds. I am rolling new corn\\nto tht\u00c2\u00bbm now. I ll wake those old sow^s up now. Ten of\\nthem, the best ones, are doing all right now; I have them\\nwaked up now. But my pigs seem to be getting wormy.\\nOct. 15th. My hogs are doing well, all but those two old\\nsows, and I think they are starting up now; but my pigs are\\nwormy and they cough. Oct. i8th. My shoats are d3 ing.\\nOct. 24th. So are the old hogs, the ones that were doing the\\nbest. One of those two sows now has started to thrive; the\\ngood ones are sick. Nov. 5th. For a while they showed\\nsigns of getting better, but now they are dying again. The\\nother one of those two sows has begun to thrive. Nov. 15th.\\nThey have taken a change for the better.\\nWhat is it that has destroyed my hogs, so who is to\\nblame? What do they say? Some say I feed too much new\\ncorn, some say it comes in the air, some say it s worms, some\\nsay it s fever, some say it s their lungs, some say it s their\\nstomach, some say it s the devils in them. But what caused\\nhim to be in them, or these other things to happen to them.\\nThey act like this. When they begin to get sick they cough,\\nvomit or scour, sometimes both sometimes costive. It seems", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "11\\nto hurt them to breathe. If they have a wound on them it\\nwon t heal. Those that are thriving and eating lots die quick.\\nThose that eat only a little linger longest. Some snuffle and\\nwheeze, their eyes water, they want water bad, they seem to\\nlive longer on some water and a little feed. I see it kills them\\nquickly when it takes one that has been eating lots. They\\nseem cold and want to lie in the nest and shiver.\\nI came to think m}^ hogs were dying of poison. I thought\\nthey breathed the poison into their lungs causing them to\\nwheeze; sometimes it lodged in their nostrils causing them to\\nsnuffle; till they got a large quantity, and when they swallow\\nit it kills them, unless they vomit it up, which they do some-\\ntimes. But if it don t kill they have a fit and vomit it up.\\nSome breathe it into a full stomach getting so much before they\\ncan relieve themselves of any of it that it kills them quickly;\\nothers nature aids by scouring and vomiting, and they put up\\na fight with the poison, till their lungs give out and they be-\\ncome a wreck. But where the poison is is the mystery. My\\nyard is clean: I have not given them anything but corn and\\nwatei it has not rained for a while. I will watch what they\\nbreathe. I see this one I am looking at has his nose stuck up\\nagainst that old sow, one of those two that I have told you\\nabout, the one of those two that has started to thrive. Can\\nhe suck with his nose anything from her.^ There is no mis-\\ntake she must be all right, because you can see she has begun\\nto thrive. Well, let s look back and see what condition she\\nhas been in for a long time We find she has not thrived for\\na long time. She has not cast off her hair or slicked off since\\nshe had her pigs She is not skin poor, but her hide is dry,\\nhair dead and the pores in her hide have been mostly closed.\\nBut now she has started to get rid of these and her pores are\\nopening, and we get no rain in the yard. My pigs sleep with", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12\\ntheir noses against her. Is tnis a fault? My pigs have begun\\nto die again. I wonder if the other one of those two is giving\\nthem a fresh dose. Both of these sows I have left. Is it this\\nthat has been killing my shoats every fall regular as clock\\nwork for four falls out of five? Yes, it is just my way to feed\\nmy hogs and shoats together.\\nNow you must understand that conditions makes a differ-\\nerence. Rain in the right time might save your hogs from\\nhaving the cholera. Now the condition for the sow to be in\\nis for her not to thrive for a long time. Hot weal her and dry\\nhelps you to get her in this condition, with her pigs suckling.\\nShe does not need to be skin poor. You need not be afraid\\nof losing this sow; you may lose every hog you have but you\\nwon t lose her if 3 Ou feed her. But she will not not do her\\nwork killing your shoats till you change her condition by\\nmakincr her thrive. This will be the second condition. Now\\nfor the third condition. Have her where this offal that she\\nwill cast off will be dumped into the others lungs and systems.\\nThen you will have cholera among them. Then you will take\\nyour bottles and tr}- to erase in a few days the effect of a\\nthing that you have been three or four months bringing about.\\nIf the old sow casts off her coat in hot weather when they\\ndon t nest together, it may rain and help you out and not\\ndo the rest any more harm than give them a cough. If she\\nstarts slowly in the fall you will have a coughing, wormy\\ncase. But if you are feeding the old sow something that is\\njust waking her right up, so to speak, why then she will kill\\nthem so fast that they will not have to pass through this cough-\\ning, wormy period, and if you are a worm doctor you will be\\nout of a job. When your shoats are getting over it you will\\nsee them nest with their noses in the air. The farmer has\\nbeen fooled so much that it is hard to make him believe there", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "13\\nis any help for this hog cholera. He thinks it comes in the\\nair. You see how it gets into their air or breath. He thinks\\nit s new corn. You see how new corn casts it into their air\\nand breath. He thinks it s their lungs. You see what s the\\nmatter with their lung s. This fellow thinks it s their stomach.\\nCD\\nYou ought to see how their stomach is troubled. Or he\\nthinks it is bred into them. You see where it was created.\\nSome think it s the devil in them. They are the nearer right,\\nonly they mean Satan and I mean devils, impurities and poison-\\nous matters. They think he comes from the air. I say they\\nare accummulated in the old sow in the summer for want of\\nsomething that will act upon her S3 stem, as new^ corn or any\\nother good feed.\\nHog cholera in August. You have some nice hogs fat-\\ntening in the summer. They are healthy and all right. You\\nbuy a few old sows because you see a speck in them. May-\\nbe 3 ou have some yourself in another lot. You put them in\\nwith your nice hogs to cast off their offal into the other s lungs.\\nThe man you bought them of, w^hy his hogs did not have the\\ncholera. You put them with yours; yours die. The old sows\\nslick off; yours, you say, are to blame. See, you say, those\\nthat I bought are well and thriving and mine died. Now, let s\\ntr} another one. We ll sa}^ you have some July or August\\npigs. These sows you cannot sell with your spring brood\\nsows. Will say you missed the fall cholera; would have been\\nall right if it had not been for these; late fall you wean their\\npigs; you turn these pets out, after the}^ are dry, with the\\nrest; they begin to thrive; you have what s called cholera in\\nthe early winter; cholera in the spring is rarer; so to are these\\nold sows. But some men try to raise winter pigs. This man s\\nshoats the hair has all at once started to come off; what s the\\nmatter; he is feeding a lot of old hogs in their pen; the old", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14\\nhogs were not in very bad condilion; he had not let them run\\ndown much; but when they started to thrive they poisoned\\nthe shoats some; it gave them a Hght scald of cholera; knocked\\nthem off their feed, causing ihem to cough and be wormy.\\nNow when you have a pen of fine hogs, quit looking in the\\nair for the devils, but keep your head. Nail a little tag on\\nyour gate like unto this: No hog goes in here till I know he\\nhas been thriving some time, to put you in mind of what I\\nhave told vou.\\nNow do not fret about a stray hog; if he comes they will\\nlight him. But watch yourself; you are the absent minded\\nman to watch; see that some day you don t run that old sow\\nthat you have in that other lot in there. I see she has raised\\nyou six or eight fine pigs, but she has not done much for a\\nlong time; and she is apt to raise you something else when\\nyou make the conditions right. But you say, Hunter, I think\\nif I pui her in here with these hogs she will slick off and get\\nfat, and make a good hog, so do I, and I d sell her with\\nthe rest and get my money out of her. Oh. no you would\\nnot. Why? Because the rest would have the cholera. You\\nseem to think. Hunter, me opening that gate and running that\\nsow in here makes lots of difference. Now you say, Hunter,\\nthose old sows you have been telling me about have the chol-\\nera. I say they have not, but the stuff to make the cholera\\nout of. If the} have why don t they die? Their lungs are\\nall right; they are all right as it will prove; when you feed\\nthem something easily digested and take their pigs away they\\nwill get fat. You know this as well as I do. You say their\\npigs have given them a hard pull, and that s all that is the\\nmatter with them. This man will say he has from ten to\\ntwenty brood sows; they have with them quite a lot of pigs;\\nthey all run in the pasture together through the summer; he", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "13\\nfeeds them dry corn, which they don t care much for; comes\\nfall he feeds them new corn which they like; his sows have\\nnot done anything all summer and he knows it; he feeds them\\nall together; tell him his shoats will begin to die as soon as\\nthe new corn give.s the old sows strength and vigor enough to\\ncast off the impurities that they have retained through the\\nsummer; tell him that opening a gate and knowing what to do\\nwould do him more good than all the worm medicine he could\\nlug home. We have the most cholera and most old sows af-\\nter we get the great nourishing food of new corn; then is also\\nwhen farmers start to prepare the most old sows for market.\\nSome start to feed it earlier than others consequently starts\\nthem up earlier; others are afraid of it for they have heard so\\nmuch about it, and merely prolongs their troubles. There is\\nno cholera in the new corn, but the corn comes on in plenty,\\nthe ricrht kind of a ration for to make their old sows cast off\\ntheir impurities. By studying this you will see why new corn\\nwas thought to cause the cholera; same way about soaked\\ncorn. I have seen men, when their sows had run down, think\\nthey would start them up so the} would be able to sell them\\nbefore hog cholera time, on soaked corn; they would have it\\njust the same; you see it was not the corn s fault. He had\\nallowed some of them to get too poisonous, and when they\\nbegan to thrive the very thing that they would do would be\\nto throw off those poisons out of their systems. His good\\nones would begin to die, the very ones he would swear were\\nwell, the poor ones are living. He would swear it was not\\ntheir fault; says his soaked corn is no good, it s Hke new corn.\\nHis neighbor feeds the same; his hogs had been kept up well,\\nthey live and he sells them.\\nI have put lots of stress on old sows, but you will see\\nthey are the most likely to get in that condition. You see", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "16\\nwhen they are not properly fed, and suckling pigs, their\\nstrength is taken in that way. I tell you that you cannot\\nraise hogs successfully and only one pen to put everything\\ninto, old and young; those that are thriving and those that are\\nnot thriving; that a crop of hogs are as easy to injure as a\\ncrop of corn; that the best thing is a feed of ground grains\\nwith a little oilmeal as a preventative, for it will prevent if\\ngiven at the right time, or it will bring it on if given at the\\nwrong time; that such preventatives as this, used while a sow\\nis suckling her pigs, and a careful lookout for such tricks as\\nthese that I will tell you of, will prevent entirely your trouble.\\nWhen you make any changes in your barrows take them\\naway from the others into another pen, they need your atten-\\ntion now^ Rain is a great thing for them now; not because\\nthey can get mud, but because it rinses them, refreshes their\\nhide, helps them cast off and soaks away the poisonous mat-\\nters that the shock to their nature caused. Now those that\\nstart to do poorl}^ remove from this yard and hold away every\\nthing till they have been thriving some time, then 3 ou can put\\nthriving ones together; you see it s the interval that causes\\nthe trouble, lack of steadiness. You may take the best of care\\nof all your hogs and neglect one old sow that you expect to raise\\nyou a wagon load of pigs, and when the time comes she will\\npay you dearly for it. When new corn comes she will take\\ncare of herself, and if only the rain will hold off and be dry\\nfor a while she will wreak vengeance on you; and she will be\\nsly with you; she will thrive and get fat and you will not lay\\nany blame on her. But if you had known it was she that\\nkilled those nice hogs she would have had your ax on her\\nskull, but now she will get the care; she is one of the ones\\nthat have stayed by you; you brag about her; you have a hog\\nthe cholera never tackled; never was sick you say. Do you", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "17\\nsa}^ nature is not kind of sly? Anyway that old sow is. She\\nhas beaten me lots of times and has she beaten you?\\nNow how you can tell your neighbor his trouble when\\nhis hogs are sick. Go over to his hog pen, nine chances to\\none you will see his old sow his pet, but if she is not there do\\nnot get fooled; he may have hauled her off to market a day or\\ntwo ago. Find out about that. Oh, he will say, they were\\nall doing fine, but I thought I d sell them before they got it.\\nNow if you had seen those that he hauled off, among them\\nyou would have found the one that left her mark behind her.\\nAnd now when you want to find his cause for getting the\\ncholera, be sure you get the facts that he tells you right;\\nthat he does not omit the very thing you want to know. A\\ngood man} men will not have it any other way than their hogs,\\nevery one of them, were in a very thriving condition. Now\\nif you are stuck, so to speak, can t see his trouble, find out all\\nabout his hogs, think about it a few days, look over this little\\nbook and you will be able to tell him easily where he made his\\nmistake. Now a m.an, to be a successful hog raiser, has got to\\nbecome master of this subject, the way they sleep breathing off\\none another. Such a lot of breathing in a small spot makes it\\nabsolutely necessary for the hog raiser to be skilled in keeping\\nthem from breathing their own poisons.\\nNow here is the way one man got at me. Says he tell\\nme. Hunter, how my hogs got the cholera? I asked him\\nhow many he had lost. Says he I lost one. 1 asked him\\nhow many he had. -I only had one says he, shut up in a\\npen by herself. I told him she did not have the cholera.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Well, what did she have says he. I told him she died quick,\\nwas not sick very long, you were feeding her slops from the\\nhouse. Yes says he, that was mostly all she got. Likely\\nyou were cleaning out some old meat barrel that had brine", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "18\\nin it, or some of the family threw a lot of salty stuff in her\\nslop pail, and it got mixed with something she liked and she\\nate it all. She ate more salt than you could have got her to\\neat any other way and it killed her. Next time I saw him he\\nknew how his hog came to die; he looked into the cause a\\nlittle. Before he was blinded because he thought he was\\nblameless. Salt will not hurt them if it is fed to them right,\\nor even mixed in their feed by a careful man, but such men,\\nyou will find, know what they are about; they will not ask a\\ngreen hand to mix up salt and feed for them to give to their\\nhogs. Now, remember it is the way you give the salt. Swill\\nfrom town I would not want. I would not want to be testing\\nit for salt all the time, and I would not feed it till I did test it.\\nAn over-dose of salt will bring on the cholera; this way you\\nwill make them all sick, more or less. There will be an in-\\nterval before you get any of them thriving again, and this is\\na thing you don t want; you don t want any stops and starts:\\nthe stop is a bad thing and the start may be the cholera. Now\\nyou get the first one started; he casts out his impurities into\\nthe others lungs; the others are off their feed and his impuri-\\nties are not so bad because he has not got much of them;\\ntherefore the others stand it, though it holds them back. Now\\nyou get them all started but a few; the ones you got started\\nfirst are doing fine, eating a large ration. You are feeding\\nheavily now^ so as to get the others started; the}^ start to thrive:\\nthey have been in this condition a long time now. Now the\\ncast off impurities from these few give the others the cholera:\\nthe impurities from these few are more poisonous; it is thrown\\ninto the lungs and stomach of hogs that are eating heavy; they\\ncannot get it out of their stomach fast enough so they get so\\nmuch in their stomach at once that it kills them; that is why\\nyour good ones die so fast. But you see they would not have", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "19\\nthe cholera for some time atter they had got the dose of salt;\\nso you see he would forget about the salt, and not lay the\\nblame where it belongs. Now look out for this salting; if\\nyou want to salt them, salt them right. Throw it in the pen\\nby itself and not mix it with something that they will eat too\\nmuch.\\nNow your hog house, their nest where they sleep, needs\\nto be cleaned out wdth water when there is a lot of dry dust in\\nit, once in a while; that dust becomes impure. Don t throw\\na little Ume in it and allow them to breathe the dust, lime and\\nall, for it may throw them off their feed, and they will not\\ndo so well anyway. When it becomes impure enough it will\\ncause you to want and need a stock food for them, which, af-\\nter you have waited a while before you use, will bring on the\\ncondition that will cause you to bury them. Anything that\\nstands in the way to keep them all, or even one, from thriving\\nneeds your attention; have no interval and they can t have\\ncholera. Now this man says, -I have a remedy that will\\nknock the effects of that interval into eternity. So you see\\nyou will eternally be the loser if you depend upon his remedy\\nNow, don t let him fool you. If you are a farmer you know\\nthat nothing but carefulness and foresight on your part will\\ndo you any good. We all know we can t neglect our corn till\\nthe Fourth of July and then be surprised that it fires. He\\nneeds to understand his crop of corn as he plants it; all his\\nmistakes he will find in the fall if he has a poor crop; unless\\nhe can see easily the cause he can lay the blame on himself;\\nthere is no ghost about it.\\nNow beorin at the end I have told vou to, the front end,\\nand you can farm this trouble away and not have to carry a\\nbottle of hog medicine in each pocket; tackle it at the wrong\\nend, the last end, you will fool vour time and money away.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "20\\nand maybe find yourself trying to keep the maggots from\\ncoming onto the carcass. Now, in regard to feeding too much\\ncorn, you know some farmt rs think this causes the trouble,\\nthey will tell you it is too heavy a feed. Here is the way\\nthey feed it when they get the cholera. They begin to feed\\nit when it is new and tender and their hogs will eat it well\\nand do well, and they feed it till it gets so hard and dry they\\nwill hardly eat any of it, and do nothing. Then they begin\\nwith the new again. Do vou call that steadiness? Right\\nwhen his old sows need tender strength given, feed the worst.\\nThey don t get it; they have the dry end of this circle then.\\nHere is what he says then: I ll not feed the new corn till\\nit s dry and hard. Here is what I siy The new corn will\\nmake them thrive and when it becomes old and dry it should\\nbe ground and mixed with other feeds for sows that are rais-\\ning pigs. There are times in the summer that it is very hot;\\nyour hogs almost wilt; you give them at night some dry corn;\\nthey lay and pant the next day. Now if you don t want an\\ninterval give those sows something else besides old, dry corn;\\nsomething that will keep up their strength; that is easily di-\\ngested. Dishwater will not do it, sour corn is not it either.\\nDon t think because you give your hogs all the corn they can\\neat and water, that that is all there is to do.\\nNow you have a bunch of nice shoats, will say thirty of\\nthem, in a lot by themselves, and some old hogs in another\\nlot, fattening for market. You hear of the hog cholera, so\\nyou sell the old hogs, knock down your fence and allow your\\nshoats to sleep where those old hogs have nested. You like\\nenough shut them up in this pen; it is dr}^ and hot and this\\nnest is very impure. The dust that the nest is made of is\\nmixed with the impurities that came from those old hogs; the\\ndust in the nest is two or three inches deep all over the nest.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "21\\nmake maybe two wagon loads of dirt. This dust is mixed\\nwell with the impurities that came from those old hogs that\\nhave nested here for a long time; it has been dry a long time.\\nNow you throw a little acid around, an ounce in this lot of\\ndust; a good rain would purify this nest out for ou, and do\\nyou a good job. But that little bit of acid did you no good.\\nNow you have stopped your shoats from thriving, and your\\nshoats are getting light doses of hog cholera; but until you\\ngive them a dose that will kill them, you will not believe it.\\nBut we will sa}^ it stays hot and dry for some time, and you\\nare feeding old dry corn and water to these pigs you have in\\nthis pen. They don t seem to do anything, you say. Now\\nafter a long time, after you have become satisfied that they\\nshould have something else with that old dry corn, you say,\\nI will make them a slop and get some hog cholera preventa-\\ntive. In time you feed this slop and preventative. The best\\nof the shoats start to thrive, say twenty of the thirty start to\\nthrive the first week. You are rolling this slop and prevent-\\native right to them now, so as to get the other ten started.\\nYou have been feeding this slop a week now. Now you lean\\nyour stomach against the fence and look over at them, this\\nmorning. Do you see that one there? He is one of the first\\nones that you got started. Do you see him all at once stop\\neating and walk off as if he did not care to eat? See him\\nstand over there; after awhile he comes back and eats as if he\\nwas very hungry. There go some more doing the same\\nthing. Count and see how^ many there are that are not thriv-\\ning now, of those ten. Eight, you say? Next morning.\\nMore of them have those walking spells, you say? You say\\nthey are bothered with worms and you say you gave them\\nsome turpentine; you say you saw them walk off and vomit,\\nand after awhile come back and go to eating again. Mark", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "those eight, and count and see how many there are that are\\nnot thriving. Can t find only six? Well, mark the six.\\nMorning after, did not care whether they got out of the nest\\nor not. You say one came out and started to eat, and fell\\nover and had a fit. You say when you kicked them out of\\nthe nest that they acted as if they had slept in a room where\\nthe gas had been blow^n out. You think they feel better now.\\nsince they have been out awhile: you say you re going to\\nmove them into another yard. Are you afraid there is any\\ngas escaping in this yard? Count and look at those six that\\nare marked. Do they seem to be doing anything? Yes.\\nthey seem to be doing better than any of them, seem to feel\\nbetter, and getting to eat better than the rest. Next morn-\\ning. I see you have moved them? Yes, but it did not do\\nan}^ good, they are dying now. How are those six? There\\nis nothing wrong with them; they seem to be thriving, starl-\\ning up a little. They will not die, you always lose the good\\nones, you say. x\\\\fter awhile. You say they have let up dy-\\ning; that you lost fifteen; and five that had it are going to get\\nwell; that ten of them did not seem to have it and are doing\\nwell now. How are those six? They are some of the ten\\nthat are doing well now. Mark those five now that you are\\nsure will get well. After awhile. You say they have begun\\nto die again. What ones? Why the good ones, the ones I\\nmarked first. You say thev were doing fine and got so they\\nwere eating well, and you thought they w^ould not have it;\\nand now they have begun to die. You were feeding them\\nheavy, so as to start up those five. Yes, I thought they were\\nover it and I wanted to get those five started. Well, did you?\\nYes! Well, watch the five now. See how they sleep. You\\nsay they sleep with their noses stuck up in the air, and even\\nlean against and partly stand up in the nest, but what they", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "23\\nwill have their noses up. After awhile. How are they now?\\nAll dead but those five, that I told you would get well. Are\\nyou sure all those five will get well? Yes, because they have\\nall started to do well You have not any more you want to\\nput in with them and try to cure? No, the rest are all dead.\\nWell it would not matter; those five have been through the\\nfire; it will be a long time before they get to eating heavy\\nagain, and nature seems to have taught them a lesson. They\\nknow the smell of the stuff that made them sick and for a long-\\ntime they will keep their noses in the air more, till the poisons\\nwork off of the bunch into the air, instead of into their lungs\\nand stomach.\\nNow here is a farmer that has got in a bottle a sure pop\\ncure for all this bad management. He must have miracles\\nbottled up in his bottle. You will find he is one of those fel-\\nlows that doctors by the bunch; he don t know, if he should\\ncure one, when it started to get well that it would poison its\\nmate; he merely saves the sick one so it can kill the well one:\\nhe doctoi s by the bunch; he is more afraid of the one that is\\ndead, or about dead, the one that can t cast off his impurities,\\nthan he is the one that is getting well and is casting its impuri-\\nties into the others stomach and lungs through their noses.\\nThis is the way the farmer doctors. Now here is what you\\nwill find around a farmer that is troubled with the hog cholera\\nvery often A lot of railsplitting brood sows with a lot of pigs\\nsuckling them. True he gives them plenty of old, dry corn,\\nbut that w^ill not keep their strength and system up in hot\\nweather; they are in this shape all through the hot part of the\\nsummer; he is not afraid of losing them by using them this\\nway; he knows he can get them in better condition when new\\ncorn comes on. He has not time to have the corn ground till\\nafter a while, then he w ill get them something they will like.", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "24\\nHis mind is on the pigs; he is pushing them all summer on\\nhis cows milk. So the old sows are neglected; they lose\\nstrength; the pigs nearly eat them up; their hide becomes dry\\nand hair dead; they get in a bad condition and dry up so they\\ndon t give any milk. After a while one will get out and get\\nin the potato patch and corn field and get some green corn,\\nand keep getting out for about a week or ten days till he gets\\nthe fence fixed so it will hold her. Green corn makes her\\nthrive even if she did steal it; he has her in with the pigs; they\\nsleep with her which means sure death to them. Now, those\\nimpurities which come from her old hide go hard with their\\nlungs and stomach. But the green corn did not hurt her, and\\nyou or I never saw it hurt an old sow; she likes it and she\\nhad been in need of it, or something else like it for a long\\ntime. This is the easy way to get cholera among your hogs,\\nthough some men keep all their hogs in good shape, and some\\nhog will get hurt by accident and not thrive for a long while,\\nand they will allow it to run with the others till it does go to\\nthriving; then their trouble. But ym will find they don t have\\nit always. But I thing after a sow has had the strain upon\\ntheir system, of raising a litter of pigs through hot weather,\\nthey should be kept away from the pigs after the pigs are\\nweaned.\\nNow how winter helps you out. You have thirty shoats;\\nyou put in an old sow or two, that are loaded just right; they\\nstart to thrive; now if it is cold, every shoat that lays with his\\nnose against them over night is not apt to get well; being cold\\nthey will not last long. The whole thirty can not all breathe\\noff them at once, so they will kill as many as breathe off them\\neach night. Of course these will linger some, but not long,\\nand they will never cast it out, or their impurities into the\\nothers. So when the old sows have thrown the worst of it", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "25\\nout of their systems into the air and noses of those that are\\ndead or going to die; then the shoats will quit dying: they\\nwill not ^et poisoned by any of the sick ones getting well, so\\ntwo or three old sows among them in cold weather will not\\nkill so man}^, or be the cause of killing so many when it is cold\\nas they will in warm weather. The poison only comes from\\nthe old sows, say in cold w^eather, or the hog that has been in\\na bad condition for a long time, where in warm weather this\\nhog poisons a lot of them, then some start to get well and\\npoison those that this hog failed to.\\nNow what I say now I don t pretend is any more than\\nwhat you can prove to yourself if you will investigate it.\\nI am a farmer and what I write you would expect to be writ-\\nten as a farmer would write. Now how does it come that a hog\\nwill get so poisonous that he will poison his mate when the\\npoison is cast out of him? I have told you how these hogs\\nthat accumulate these poisons are cared for; now I will tell\\nyou another thing that aids them. If you are a farmer you\\nhave heard and know since you w^ere a boy that when an old\\nsow gets run down in this shape that I have been telhng you\\nabout, that it takes as much feed as she is worth to get her\\nin condition again. Now I ll tell you what happens to that\\nsow. When the sow is thriving and strong her outside hide\\nis porous, called among us farmers as the scurf. It is a kind\\nof a spong}^ arrangement; seems to be a kind oi an after\\nthought of nature to keep things from stopping up the pores\\nin her true skin; from the outside acts Hke a guard; it s the\\noutside protection of the pores in the main hide. Now when\\nthe sow is strong and properly cared for this outside hide keeps\\nporous and spongy, and does the work nature intended it to\\ndo. Now remember this work is to keep outside harm away\\nfrom the pores in her main hide. This outside hide gets its", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "26\\nlife and strength trom the system of the sow and pays for it\\nin this way, and this is all it will do for her; this outside hide\\nis a protection of life. Nature intended this outside hide to\\ndo another work, but not for her life. This is the safety valve:\\nas long as it receives proper nourishment it will do the first\\nwork nature intended it to do faithfully. Now this outside\\nhide will allow a certain amount of impurities to pass through\\nit and escape into the air and no more at one time, that is they\\nhave to pass just as it receives its strength to allow them to\\npass; that is the price it demands; those are the only condi-\\ntions in which they are allowed to pass. This is the other\\nw^ork nature intended to do, and that is the price nature in-\\ntended it should demand; no way can these impurities come\\nout through this outside hide from this old sow. till this price\\nhas been paid. It does no credit business; they can pass\\nthrough the main skin by cupfuls or like going through cloth,\\nbut they can not pass this outside scurf, or hide, till it receives\\nits price. Now nature intended this outside hide to hold those\\npoisons from coming out when they got too poisonous, to pro-\\ntect the rest of the herd, which it will do till man off-sets it,\\nwhich he does by protecting her, the sow, from wild beasts\\nwhich would prey upon her w^hile she was in this weak state.\\nHe lacks the wild beasts here in Iowa and he does not count\\non this lack of service to the rest of the herd. Now^ this out-\\nside hide becomes as a thin rubber as she becomes more im-\\npure. Now she cannot eat any thing unless it is easy to di-\\ngest and carry off some impurities with it, and pass off fast\\nand leave strength in her system. Well she would not get\\nthis if she was in a wild state, very quickly. You see nature\\ndid not intend her to be doctored; it intended her to be des-\\ntroyed by other animals that would prey upon; that was na-\\nture s intentions, for to protect the health of the rest of the", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "27\\nherd. But man sets aside nature s plan. In regard to this\\nold sow, his yards protect her and hold her among the rest.\\nStill this outside hide does its work faithfully for months, to the\\nrest; it has become, now, almost like rubber, and it holds back\\nthose poisons well. Now between it and the main skin there\\nis a thin layer of impurities that has lain there for weeks, held\\nby this rubber hide; not all over her body, for she keeps rub\\nbing and loosens up this scale in places and allows some of\\nthe poison to escape; but all over her back and where she\\ncannot rub this scale holds them firm. Well, this poison that\\nshe rubs loose does a little harm, gives the rest a cough by\\ngetting on their lungs, and hurts their digestion by coming\\ninto their stomach, and causes worms to be created in their\\nstomach. But that is all the harm it does them yet, for her\\noutside hide is faithfully protecting them from any large\\namount, while they sleep with her. Now this scale cannot be\\nsoaked up with water; water will run off of it as it will a rub-\\nber boot. Now man knowS how he can aid this old sow to\\nbreak this scale. He knows she must have strength he knows\\nof no medicine that will do it; he knows of feeds, though, that\\nwill give her strength something as green corn, a tender, fresh,\\neasy digested, strength giving food, that will begin slowly but\\nsurely and build up her strength and make her strong to\\nforce off this outside scale. Now this outside hide does not\\ncome to life as she gets her strength, but is forced up and off\\nof her in flakes. Now you see it demanas a guarantee that\\nshe has the ability to live before it will move and allow the\\nothers to be destroyed. But this feed is easy for her to get\\nnow; he, the man. gets it for her in plenty, so in time she\\nshows her ability to live; nature has her price, the rubber like\\nscale is forced up and begins breaking up as ice in a river, the\\npoisons that have been held are freed. Now for a few days", "height": "3418", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "28\\nit is death to those hogs that sleep with her. Now this poison\\nbegins to escape slowly at first; the rest of the herd don t know\\nthat death is in their camping place; they rove around in the\\nday; they feel better in thr day after they have been around\\nawhile, but every morning they feel worse; they feel as if the\\ngas had been blown out in the night, but not gas enough es-\\ncaped to kill them. But these that are getting this poison\\nhave outside hide, too, and it is beginning to act for the pro-\\ntection of those that are not gc-tting the poison; it closes down\\non them; it shuts off anything from passing from their pores\\nin their main hide. It works as good on them as it did on the\\nold sow; nothing can pass through this scale on this hog that\\nis getting poisoned from that old sow. Take hold of the hog\\nand see how smooth and like rubber that scale has become:\\nsee the pale purple underneath it. Now this hog does not\\nhave the chance this old sow had; he can t eat the good feed\\nin the dav time, and he is breathing poison into his stomach and\\nlungs at night; also it is coming off the old sow^ faster; now he\\nis doing the only way that is left to him to get rid of some\\nthat he gets, vomiting and scouring; his strength is gone and\\nhe dies. Look at him now, see the deep purple color he has.\\nAfter the animal heat has left him take a stick and scratch\\naway the scale and see if I have you the truth told. When\\nthis hog is dead he is also a danger to the others in two ways,\\nif it is in the nest where they sleep The scale loses its power\\nto protect the others; it loses its life and becomes as bad gam,\\nso to speak, and will rub off exposing a layer of poisonous\\nmatter, which, if it be in the nest, the others may breathe off.\\nNeither should well hogs be allowed to devour such a hog,\\nfor it is impure. The poisons on it are mostly on the outer\\nside of it. I have seen them start to devour such a hog and\\ngo to vomiting before the}^ hardly got its hide cut through.", "height": "3428", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "29\\nI don t say it will kill the hog by eating the other, but it may\\nbe the cause of getting him in a condition that he will give\\nthe kill to the others.\\nI want to say this will not help some men from having\\nthe hog cholera among their hogs. You see a man wants to\\nknow what he is about, and that some men will not learn.\\nThe preventative is care and a proper understanding of how\\nthe hog should be cared for. It requires steady care and\\nw^atchfulness, and that is something some men will not give.\\nMedicine, they think, is easily given; they want to learn how\\nto cure them by the bunch, and that end of this thing I have\\nnot tried to do. All I claim is they need not have this trouble\\nby the bunch. I have written this from tests and I surely\\ndon t want to tell you an untruth.\\nI say next summer take a sow that has raised six or eight\\npigs on dry corn through hot weather; take her and put her\\nin with some young hogs; feed her anything that is good, that\\nwill build her strength up, and if they don t fight her and not\\nsleep w^ith her they will get poisoned. Here is something to\\nshow you how easily you could get beat. I saw a man shut\\nup twenty hogs in a pen to fatten, and it was about six weeks\\nbefore they began to die. Some of thera got to be tine hogs.\\nI kept watch of these hogs; that is, I saw them w hen he put\\nthem up and twice afterwards. His yard was new; four of\\nthese hogs were about half fat, fair hogs; the other sixteen\\nW ere in fair condition. It was hot and dry had no large showers.\\nNow if you had not known something of this bunch of\\nhogs, you would not be able to tell him where he made his\\nmistake.\\nWell, when he put them in the pen, there were four bar-\\nrows that were doing w^ell and eating well; they were good\\nhogs, only they needed to be fed a while longer. The others", "height": "3418", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "30\\nwere sixteen old brood sows, that had been kept up pretty\\nwell, but not quite high enough, so I made up m^^ mind to\\nkeep track of them and I made a trip to see them after they\\nhad been in awhile. I found that the sixteen sows were doing\\ngreatly, very fine, but the four were doing nothing. Now he\\nthought his hogs were doing very well. His mind was on\\nthese old sows; the} were doing well, so he thought; every-\\nthing Wcis as it should be. About six weeks from the time he\\nput them up, the}^ began to die. Now when I saw them, the\\nfour were starting to thrive, and the sixteen were beginning\\nto die. Now the sixteen were very nice hogs before they\\nstarted to die, and the four were in fair shape, and you could\\nsee they were thriving. Now when he put them up, those\\nsixteen had not been kept up well enough. But they were\\nnot Very impure, but impure enough to pois(m the four that\\nwere eating heavy, knocking them off their feed and keeping\\nthem in a bad state of health for live or six weeks in hot\\nweather, before they got to thriving again. But the poison\\nwas not strong enough to kill them; but now, you see, this\\npoison grew, so to speak, by causing the other four to become\\nvery poisonous. Now when they started to thrive, they be-\\ngan to kill the sixteen, six weeks or more after they had been\\nn this new yard. Now these four hogs were put in, good\\nand pure hogs, and turned to be the death of some of the oth-\\ners, and you rolling corn and w^ater to them. Now let me say,\\nyou are so used to saying swine plague and hog cholera that\\nthose names sound ghostly to you. You don t think you are\\nable to handle a ghost, but try to kill him with medicine.\\nNow I tell you there is only one thing you can drive a ghost\\naway from you with, mix up a little reason and give it and it\\nwill take it and go away. Do not think there is anything\\nsneaking from one farm to another to kill your hogs. If any-", "height": "3428", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "31\\nthing comes, it will be a hog, and if he gives them anything,\\nthey will have to sleep with him. Now he v^^ill not give them\\na ghost, but poison. Now say hog poison to yourself, that\\ncion t seem so ghostly, you could handle that. Yes, you can\\nhandle that, you can cause it to be thrown into their lungs and\\nstomach, or into the air; can cause it to be accummulated or\\nnot, just as you like. Now here is a man that did not try to\\nraise many hogs, and what he did try to raise he said would\\nalways die. Here is the way he would try. He had a small\\npen, two or three brood sows. Well, they would raise him\\nsix or eight pigs apiece; the pigs would do well all summer:\\nhe would feed them on the outside of the pen. But the old\\nsows would get dry, hard corn and tht* pigs would suck until\\nthe sows would become drv. Now the heat of the summer,\\nwith these pigs suckling them, would get them very weak\\nand impure. Now step up to their pen, pull out some of their\\nhair. See how easy it comes Don t you see it is dead?\\nLook at the ends of it. Why don t they shed it? Says he,\\nI will soon have some new corn, I am going to feed it as\\nsoon as I can; I aint afraid of green corn giving them the\\ncholera; I will make those old sows slick off, and you wont\\nknow them So he begins to feed it. In a few days his\\npigs begin to cough. Now they sleep right up closely to\\nthose old sows, but it don t seem to help their cough. Now,\\nin a while, they begin to get wormy, now their eyes begin to\\nwater, now they begin to vomit or scour, now they begin to\\nwheeze and shiver, now they begin to die. Now he was\\nright, you would not know those old sows. Bad disease\\namong shoats, he says. That is another one of his ghost\\nwords. If he would say distemper, it would not make him\\nfeel so creepy and he would hunt for something wrong that\\nhe could find. Now which ones would he suppose would die,", "height": "3418", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "32\\nthe shoats or the old sows; or in other words, the ones that\\nare casting off their impurities, or the ones that are taking\\nthem into their lungs and stomach? Now a hog that dies\\nquick with this poison, his lungs you will not find affected\\nmuch. He got too much of it in his stomach at once, killing\\nhim before his lungs got bad. He could not empty his stom-\\nach quick enough. But one that has lived aw^hile after he\\nhas got poisoned, you will easily see the effects of it in his\\nlungs, d3^ing from the destruction of both lungs and stomach.\\nNow if you think it is a good thing to purify your old\\nsows among your young hogs in the fall, you will soon think\\ndifferent. You see they get their noses so close to the doors\\nthat you cast those impurities out of. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2x\\\\nd that is not all;\\nthey draw the stuff into them. And that is not all; they help\\nyour cast out draw it, the impurities, out of your old sows.\\nNow^, this poisonous matter. It is where it goes that makes\\nyour shoats so sick, first thing, right into their lungs and stom-\\nach. If it came out and struck their foot, it would not hurt\\nthem. Now the trouble with us has been that we have been\\nfoolish enough to think that Nature would create the hog to\\nsleep in bunches, and fail to provide a protection for them.\\nThey might be entirely destroyed if that was the case. But\\nNature did give them protection, and it will try to the ver}-\\nlast to protect them. You can put three hogs in a pen and\\ncause them to have the cholera and Nature will save one, if\\nyou will remove them as they die. One must get well if you\\ndon t kill it with your medicine. That is like this, you see.\\nYou have two nice hogs in a pen. Now get an old sow that\\nneeds purifying, put her in with them. Now get some new\\ncorn or something like it and feed her. Now^ she will be\\nready in a few days to prove to Nature her ability to live. So\\nshe throws off this deadly stuff, the other to breathe it; will", "height": "3428", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "say one dies. You get ^our bottle and go at the other one.\\nYou drag it to one side of the pen; it gets up to her the next\\nnight. But we will say you had a miracle in your bottle, and\\none starts to get well; you feed it when it gets strong; it will\\nprove to Nature its ability to live and kill the other one. l^ut\\nit will live, unless you have another miracle, to get the other\\none well and kill him. But you could not kill him. Nature\\nthrows another protection around him. Now if your shoats\\nwere very wormy when they died, or when they were dying,\\nit was because they had been getting some poisons, before\\nthey got the dose that started to kill them. That is like this;\\nsome C)f 3 our old sows, the best ones of course, started to cast\\noff their impurities, which was not strong enough to kill, but\\ncaused your shoats to cough and become wormy. Now when\\nthe poorest ones of the old hogs started, your pigs began dy-\\ning. Or if your pigs had got poisoned too much, when some\\nof them started, they would set the rest to d\\\\ing.\\nNow if you will do as this. Keep your sows up while\\nthe pigs are suckling, give them good slops through hot\\nweather, and when you wean your pigs, keep them away\\nfrom the old hogs; and remember, it is when the impure hog\\ngoes to thriving that he injures the others. Don t put an old\\nsow in with hogs you have been feeding some time, to cast off\\namong them. Remember in hot weather it is hard on fat\\nhogs. Keep them doing something or sell them. But as\\nlong as they are all doing well, you need not fear the cholera.\\nNow 3 ou see a bunch of hogs that have the cholera; on the\\nother side of a wire fence you see another bunch that is all\\nright; one bunch is 3 oung hogs sleeping with oung hogs;\\nthe other bunch is some young hogs sleeping with some old,\\nimpure brood sows that are casting off their impurities.\\nt .rfC", "height": "3418", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3428", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3418", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3428", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3418", "width": "2285", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "I\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n]iiiiii iii Siiii i iiW iiiti^\\nI! ii i; ii ill\\n^5^U.r^^.^ l^^Mmmmm\\n(EE TIMES PRINT.", "height": "3428", "width": "2286", "jp2-path": "causeofhogcholer00hunt_0040.jp2"}}