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to give either one of them the disease withia two weeks while the 

 other shall remain healthy ; and to cure by removing the cause of 

 the sickness, the same as exists at the distilleries and on farms. 



Proprietors of Distilleries, daily visiting the Merchants' Exchange 

 at Cincinnati, 0., have subscribed $4,000, and $6,000 more is prom- 

 ised by six other Distillers, toward raising a reward or bounty to 

 induce Prof. Comstock to disclose, confidentially or otherwise, his 

 knowledge on this subject to them ; payable after the discoveries are 

 known and proved by each subscriber to the fund, to be effectual. 



Persons wishing the information and willing to subscribe to the 

 proposed reward, can obtain further information by writing to either 

 of the Distilleries or Feeders in the vicinity of Cincinnati, 0., or to 

 Prof Comstock, at Mabbettsville, New York. 



Prof. Comstock states that he made the disvoveries at Hijwins- 

 port, 0., last March, and that all his observations made since con- 

 firm his first impressions made at Higginsport. 



The ravages of this disease have been enormous. Some farmers 

 have lost hundreds of their hogs by this sickness, and some have 

 lost their entire stock, every hog by it. Some Distillers have lost 

 one half of their hogs. One Ohio Distiller has lost within fifteen 

 months by the sickness $75,000. Another Distiller has lost $10,000 

 in the last three months by the malady. Some Drovers estimate the 

 loss of pigs by cholera at more than one half of all produced this 

 year in Ohio and Indiana. This disease has also recently made its 

 appearance in a most malignant form in Tennessee. It threatens 

 the destruction of the product, not only by diseasing it, but by 

 rendering it so extremely precarious that persons will turn attention 

 to something else as many farmers are now doing. 



Thousands of bushels of Distilled corn are daily thrown into 

 rivers on account of the malignity of the Hog cholera. If possible, 

 every Feeder of Swine should know the Cause, Prevention, and 

 Cure. This disease is a National calamity, extending throughout the 

 length and breadth of the Union. 



Reference by consent to, Messrs. 



Mark Buckingham, P. M., Miamiville, 0., 

 Thomas GtAPF, Aurora, Ind., 

 Alexander Ingram, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 N. B. — Farmers generally who have heard Prof. Comstock disclose 

 his System of Agriculture, offer $5 for his knowledge of the disease 



