Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1916 — Thirty Hogs Dead at Winamac From Peculiar Disease. [ARTICLE]

Thirty Hogs Dead at Winamac From Peculiar Disease.

Winamac Republican. Frank Bishop, living northeast of Winamac, has lost thirty hogs just ready for the market, by an odd disease that has puzzled veterinary surgeons called on the case. The hog is sick only a few days with a trouble that examination proves affects the lungs seriously, and in a short time the beast loses all fatness and becomes unable to stand. All usual stock remedies fail to chock the disease and a veterinary specialist declared himself unable to diagnose the trouble. He took the diseased lung of one of the victims, for laboratory investigation and promises report to Mr. Bishop if the cause and a remedy can be determined. Mr. Bishop has saved only two bogs out of the large herd. He reports-also that Chas. Davis, of the same neighborhood, lost his herd early in the fall by a similar disease.