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The remedy. — Every farmer knows how subject Logs are to intestinal worms 

 of as large a growth as those infesting the human family. Even these large 

 ones eat their way through the intestines, and live on the fat of the animal. 

 We have, in killing hogs, found them sticking half inside and half outside the 

 entrails. It was this disgusting sight that led us to extirpate them by mixing 

 copperas with the salt we gave our hogs. 



We have no doubt of the efficacy of this treatment as a destroyer of the trichina, 

 and if to these benefits it should be proven to be a preventive of hog cholera, 

 the use of copperas should be omitted by no one. Certain it is, that we were a 

 hundred-fold compensated for the small cost and trouble in using it as we did, 

 by the destruction of the large intestinal worms so commonly found in our hogs. 



It is doubtless true that intestinal worms, are propagated more readily when 

 farm stock is raised in large numbers by the same person, or fed on unusvial 

 food. Both conditions produce an unhealthy state, and there rests upon the far- 

 mer the duty of greater care in proportion to the number he raises. The un- 

 natural crowding of a great number of hogs in the distillery at Aurora, Indiana, 

 and the still-slop with which they were fed, produced the disease known as hog 

 cholera. Morbid and poisonous secretions are created, which have the power of 

 self-propagation. A morbid condition is favorable to the production of intes- 

 tinal worms ; and in greater care as to the food used to cleanliness and to ventila- 

 tion, and to the use of preventive remedies, must the American farmer look, 

 if he hopes to maintain a profitable demand for the stock, used as human food, 

 which he raises. 



Trichince in American pork. — The following report from the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences has been received after this number of our report was placed 

 in type. We nevertheless insert it here, that the farmers may see that tricJiincB 

 are in American hogs, and that the course we have recommended to destroy this 

 parasite is now imperatively demanded of them, should the use of copperas prove 

 a destroyer of the trichince. Experiments should be instituted by agricultural 

 associations and agricultural colleges to ascertain a certain preventive. 



TRICHINA IN PORK. 



Investigations hy the Chicago Academy f^ Sciences. 



The Chicago papers publish a report of a committee of the Academy of 

 Sciences of that city, which was appointed to determine the question whether 

 the disease was to be found in animals slaughtered in that city. The document 

 makes these important statements : 



TRICHINAE IN WESTERN PORK. 



Your committee have conceived that the object for which they were appointed 

 is two-fold — first, to ascertain whether trichinae actually exist in the hogs of 

 this country, and in those of the northwest in particular ; and, secondly, should 

 they exist, to determine the extent of the danger therelay incurred, and to as- 

 certain the best means of averting it. For the attainment of the first-mentioned 

 object they have, with the assistance of the gentlemen named at the head of 

 this report, procured and examined portions of muscle taken from 1,394 hogs 

 in the different packing-houses and butcher-shops of our city. The results of 

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