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tar, charcoal, sulphate of iron, sinartweed tea, soap-suds, poke-root, 

 tobacco, assafetida, garget-root, maudrake, and all the poisons of the 

 apothecary shop are administered. There appears to be an irrepressi- 

 ble craving for something besides the inevitable corn, Avhich is too con- 

 centrated for the exclusive and continuous diet of any animal ; hence, 

 those who feed sloppy mashes of potatoes, beets, or other roots, as well 

 as corn, giving wholesome variety and sufficient bulk, and have exer- 

 cised ordinary care and discretion in other respects, have ordinaiily 

 escaped the dreaded " hog cholera." Occasional feeds of bituminous 

 coal, charcoal, sulphnr, and similar substances of antiseptic or correct- 

 ive tendency, have become quite common, and testimony to their 

 efficacy is very abundant. Spirits of turpentine, copperas, and 

 arsenic, are often given in the way of iireventive medication, as well as 

 in attempted cure. A judicious variety in feed, and care and treatment 

 dictated by reason and prudence, of which an interest involving so 

 much money is certainly worthy, would doubtless prevent mucli the 

 greater portion of the losses which are so disastrous as to prevent farm- 

 ers from enlarging and even continuing a business which has become so 

 precarious. Numerous reports are received showing the discourage- 

 ment of pork producers in districts where diseases have been peculiarly 

 fatal, and revealing a disposition to quit hog-raising altogether. 



No prevailing disease is reported in the New England States, 



Kcw Yorl: — A few cases of dysentery in Tompkins ; many i)igs die in 

 Genesee ; in Niagara, few sows raise more than three or four. 



Keic Jersey. — Some cases of " hog cholera " among a lot fed ui)on the 

 refuse of a cheese factory in Sussex ; a few western liogs died in Mer- 

 cer, loss two hundred dollars ; some disease in Gloucester. 



Pennsylvania. — In Lancaster, one distiller lost one hundred out of 

 three hundred ; a miller lost all (thirteen) western hogs, some worth 

 830 to 800 each ; one-half of a lot of Ohio hogs died in York; loss five 

 per cent, in Perry; twenty per cent, in Lehigh. 



Maryland. — Losses in Washington, Baltimore, and Kent. 



Yirfjinut. — Measles prevalent in Princess Anne ; loss thirty-three per 

 cent, in Nelson; loss two thousand in Henrico, mainlj' at distilleries; 

 some feeders in Montgomery lost thirty fat hogs each ; loss thir;y-three 

 per cent, in Scott; in Surry, one man lost seventy — in all cases hogs 

 ke])t up and fed on cooked food escaped. 



Korth Carolina. — Loss in Duplin, fifty per cent.; Jackson, fifty per 

 cent.; New Hanover, 30 per cent.; Macon, twenty-five i)er cent.: Cald- 

 well, 20 per cent.; and smaller losses were incurred in Chowan, Beaufort, 

 Surry, Granville, Alamance, and Moore; in Green, several thousand 

 pounds of pork were lost. 



The following quotations are made from South Carolina correspond- 

 ents : 



Union County. — A disease, commonly called hog cholera, has carried 

 oft' many of our hogs. When first attacked the hog becomes stupid 

 and dull, then stift", loses appetite, vomits ; and they generally die in 

 one to five days after the attack. All ages, sizes and conditions are 

 subject to the disease. The loss has been about twenty per cent. 

 Various remedies have been used, but nothing has been found that will 

 cure in all cases. In some cases strychnine has been given and the 

 hogs recovered. 



Georgetown County. — Since February the hog cholera showed itself in 

 the northern section of the county. One farmer reports his entire stock 

 dead (about forty head) and thinks that within his range of five miles 

 as many more have perished. The disease has not yet subsided. 



