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Austin County, Texas. — Hog cholera prevails to some extent. An 

 afctive purgative has proved very beneficial. Sweet milk and soft soap, 

 given lukewarm, is recommended. 



Sullivan County, Tenn. — Neither the cold weather nor any treatment 

 has checked the hog cholera. It attacks all breeds alike. Some believe 

 soft soap fed thrice a Veek to be a preventive, but the general expe- 

 rience has not proved it so. 



Botjle County, Ky. — Hog cholera is proving very destructive. No 

 known remedy. 



Shelby County^ Ky. — A large number of fall pigs have died this winter 

 from a disease resembling in some respects the cholera. The symptoms 

 are a cough and gradual wasting away of the system. Half a pound of 

 calomel to fifty shoats, stirred into shelled corn while damp from pre- 

 vious soaking, has been found an eflicacious remedy. 



Miami County, Ind. — Our hogs have been troubled with the cholera 

 and a disease pronounced to be quinsy, proving fatal in forty-eight 

 hours from the time of attack. Suds from common soft soap, and cam- 

 phor, have proved the most availing remedies. 



AID TO THE FAKMERS OF FRANCE. 



The following circular has been issued by the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, in cooperation with the relief committee of the New York 

 Chamber of Commerce : 



TO THE PAKMEKS OF THE COUNTRY. 



The wants of the peasant-farmers of Northern and Central France, 

 rendered imperative by the spoliations of war, appeal to the sympathies 

 and benevolence of Americans, who can never forget the disinterested 

 services of Frenchmen in our early struggles for national independence. 

 The season of seed-time is approaching, and the supplies of seed to 

 insure a harvest and avert a famine must, in a large measure, come from 

 England, Belgium, and America. In this generous national rivalry it 

 is to be hoped that this country will not be distanced. 



The New York Chamber of Commerce offers to give free transporta- 

 tion to France, through its relief committee, to all grains and seeds-con- 

 tributed, and will pay freight charges to New York on any invoice ex- 

 ceeding one hundred bushels ; but local donors should arrange with 

 interior railroads for free transportation, if j)ossible, to New York City. 



The best local varieties of spring wheat of last year's crop, sound and 

 clean, are especially desirable, yet winter wheat may be contributed 

 where spring wheat is not attainable ; the heaviest and most productive 

 oats, as the Excelsior, Swedish, Surprise, and Norway ; the most thrifty 

 kinds of barley, and the most prolific varieties of bush-beans. Especial 

 care should be exercised in avoiding seed injured by or containing in- 

 sects, and grains foul with the germs of pestiferous weeds. The pack- 

 ages should be stout and well-fastened barrels, and the net weight 

 should be plainly marked upon each package, the variety of seed or 

 grain, and the State where grown. 



These donations should be sent to the relief committee of the New 

 York Chamber of Commerce, at 64 Pearl street, in season for shipment 

 on the 15th of March, and it is hoped and believed that they will be 

 both liberal and general. 



. HORACE CAPRON, 



Commissioner. 



