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I thought I might as well administer to the diseased 
animals the medicine which the magazine recommend- 
ed,—antimony.—I began with great confidence in the 
medicine from the high character given of its virtues in 
several late English publications ; I dosed two or three 
and they certainly did not die so speedily as under the 
other regimen: in the course of a few hours five or six 
more shewed symptoms of disease, I applied the same 
specific; but unfortunately they went from bad to worse, 
so that in two or three days I had only the skins left of 
thirteen very fine hogs: early one morning the four- 
teenth took sick and symptoms of immediate dissolution 
appeared on him :—I determined however to give no 
more medicine—I merely bled him under the ear and 
in the tail:—he bled freely—I then had him carried 
out (for he was unable to walk) toa clover field; he 
was put down, but he could not stand; I observed how- 
ever though he was laying down taat lie began to bite 
off the heads of clover (which stood very rank) voraci- 
ously ; I left him without much hope of his recovery, 
but still with the appearance of more favourable symp- - 
toms:—I came home to my breakfast, after which I 
again went out to the field and found to my great sur- 
prise the hog walking about and still feeding on the 
clover :—in two days he was perfectly recovered : 
that is, he fed with as much avidity as any hog at the 
trough. Finding the favourable change in this hog, I 
imstantly turned my whole stock (about 180) on clover, 
of which I then had a five acre field nearly ready to cut 
the second time ; the sacrifice was well repaid, for from 
that instant I had no more sick hogs.—Last year, about 
the middle of August which is the time sickness has , 
