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of milk or slop ; mix -well by stirring ; pour into a trough suflSciently long for all the 

 hogs to get to readily ; then let them go to it all at once. It will be better where there 

 is a large lot of hogs to bring them to the trough in detachments of not more than 

 twenty. This course, if persevered in for a week, when there are any indications of 

 the disease, it is believed, will arrest it. 



The curative treatment is very similar — carbolic acid in the same amount three times 

 per day, adding to each dose a tablespoonful of sulphite of soda; if the hog is too sick 

 to eat, catch it, turn it on its back, and pour the medicine into its mouth ; in this case 

 a half pint of milk is a good vehicle in which to administer the medicine. 



The Spencer Eeporter makes the following statement : 



Hog cholera has prevailed, and still prevails. Its presence is confined to no partic- 

 ular district or locality, but is spreading in its visitations. "WTien it becomes present 

 on a farm it generally takes off all the young pigs, and from one-fourth to three-fourths 

 of the rest of the swine, leaving the surviving in an unthrifty state. Within the last 

 fifteen years two-thirds of the farms have been visited with it, and some farms more 

 than once. The efiect has been to discourage the raising and feeding of hogs, which 

 "was a specialty. 



In Anderson, Kentucky, the loss is estimated at 500 head ; in Hardin, 

 33 i^er cent,, and the disease still spreading ; in Bourbon, $5,000 ; in 

 Whiteley, 50 per cent. ; very heavy in Clarke, Avhile in Christian the loss 

 is placed at 25 per cent., 20 per cent, in Kenton and Lanrel, about the 

 same in Graves, and less in Shelby, Hopkins, Scott, and Warren. 



In Clarke, Missouri, the loss is estimated at 50 per cent., " confined 

 principally to pigs up to six months old ;" " many deaths from insufti- 

 cient shelter, but all attributed to cholera," is written from Bates ; loss 

 1,000 head in Holt, 375 in Bates, 200 in Pettis, and small percentages 

 of loss in Benton, Cass, Dent, Butler, He Kalb, Montgomery, Marion, 

 Mercer, and Yernon. 



Thirty-six counties in Illinois report losses from diseases of swine, 

 though the damage is comparatively slight, with few exceptions. Our 

 Pulaski correspondent says that some hogs have died, but in most in- 

 stances it seemed to be the result of poor feeding, or feeding without 

 proper admixture of cooked food or green pasture ; and he thinks that 

 hogs cannot be profitably raised under the presant careless treatment. 

 The reporter in WilUamson attributes their small loss of 5 j^er cent, to 

 the fact that last year's corn was thoroughly matured, and hogs better 

 cared for than usual; though he thinks that some septic or other exter- 

 nal influence, independent of feeding or other treatment, gives rise to 

 hog cholera. In Washington, disease has more generally prevailed, and 

 has been attended with greater loss than for many years. Losses have 

 been quite heavy iu portions of Sangamon ; are estimated at 3,000 in 

 Cass ; 450 head in Clinton ; 25 per cent, in Scott ; 20 per cent, in White 

 and McDouough; 15 i^er cent, iu Menard; 10 ])er cent, in Edwards, 

 "prevailing almost exclusively in rolling districts;" and is also re- 

 ported in Adams, Crawford, Champaign, De Kalb, Franklin, Fulton, 

 Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Jersey, Knox, Lawrence, Logan, Mercer, 

 Menard, Marion, Madison, Morgan, Pope, Pike, Stephenson, Stark, 

 Piatt, Pulaski, White, and Warren. 



The loss from hog cholera or other maladies in Indiana is less than 

 usual. In Union County " disease has entirely disappeared " within the 

 last twelvemonths; it has alrao.st disappeared in Hush ; is found "only 

 in the vicinity of flouring mills and distilleries" in Switzerland; "loss 

 small compared with other years" in Harrison; Vandenburg " lias not 

 been so free for twelve years;" lias not been so destructive as formerly 

 iu Marion, "though one-fifth of all the young die;" since July there 

 has been less comphiint in Bartholomew than for several years ; loss iu 

 Cass has been 200 head ; it amounts to one-third of the young in Po- 

 sey ; and losses have occurred iu Floyd, Wabash, Howard, Jefferson, 



