RECIPES. 363 
TO MAKE HOGS GROW AND FAT WELL. 
Never wean your pigs till six. weeks or three months old ; 
feed them only twice a day, as nigh twelve hours apart as 
possible; give them their regular allowance, and no more 
than they will eat up clean; give a hog weighing 50 Ibs. two 
ounces sulphur in sweet milk and Indian meal fall and S 
keep them in summer in a grass ‘yard, well-rung, whete they 
can get water ; keep their pen clean, and in winter give them a 
warm pen and # clean, dry nest; never keep'more than four 
_inone pen. I have tried it for twenty-five years, and with 
great success. I have raised the weight of a hog one and a 
half to two and a half pounds a day for one —— 
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“Take tobaceo moistened” with vinegar, and lay on a few 
times, will care-them ;" “or tosh saad arene and my on a. 
~ “Onrry them well in the fall; chop savine small and-mix it 
with fresh butter ; give them a small ball or two of it. Also 
sweetwort and black soap mixed together as a drink, destroys 
all sorts of worms in cattle or on them. 
‘TO CURE THE BLIND STAGGERS. 
Split the skin from the top of the head to the eyes, rip up 
the skin, and put in fine salt; or pour cold water on the 
head every five minutes. 
