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Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) 2 ijounds. 



Sodium hyposulphite 2 pounds. 



Sodium sulphate (Glauber salts) 1 pound. 



Antimony sulphide 1 pound. 



The dose is a tablespoonful for each 200 pounds once or twice a day. 

 It is best given in slop. This costs about ten cents per pound, and is the 

 one so much imitated and sold under different names at froru twenty to 

 twenty-live cents per pound. 



Our best results in the treatment of mild cases were obtained by using 

 the following: 



Chlorate of potash 1 pound. 



Bicarbonate of soda 1 pound. 



Nitrate of potash .2 pounds. 



The dose is the same as in the former prescription. In the early 

 stages and when constipation is present five grains of calomel are ad- 

 ministered once a day to each 200 pounds of weight, or oil meal is added 

 to the slop. 



Another treatment which found considerable favor was a tablespoon- 

 ful of a saturated solution of chlorate of potash and a like quantity of 

 tincture of muriate of iron once or twice a day for each three hundred 

 pounds. 



A half gallon of kerosene to a barrel of slop, mixed thoroughly, gave 

 better results than three-fourths of the remedies tried. 



Quinine and salol were also of service. 



Carbolic acid and like preparations are disinfectants and not cures. 



The treatment of inoculating worn-out horses with cholera germs, 

 killing the horse and .feeding it to the hogs was not a success. The feed- 

 ing of the carcasses of hogs that had died of the disease and been buried is 

 to be condemned. The boiling of the carcasses of cholera hogs and feed- 

 ing them has likewise disappointed those who have tried it. A tinal 

 method of prying open the hog's mouth and cutting of the papillae inside 

 of the jaw only abstracts blood. 



Prevention by Vaccination. — The attempt to prevent hog clioU'ra by 

 vaccination is dependent upon the fact that one attack confers immunity 

 against subsequent attacks. Vaccination has been used against smallpox 

 in the human sub ect with the most marked success. In this case the 

 pox germ is obtained from the cow, and when vaccination takes place it 

 Induces a mild disease. Vaccination is also used against anthrax in 

 sheep and cattle. Here the disease germs have their vitality reduced by 

 artificial means and only a mild attack follows. The results are highly 

 satisfactory, and sheep and cattle are now raised where it was impossible 

 to do so before. 



50— Agri. 



