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as preventives. He says: “I have never met with any case in my observa- 
tion in which fully developed and well defined cases of cholera have been cured. 
It is true, no doubt, that hogs with cholera have been dosed and got well. It 
is also true, that they sometimes get well without being doctored at all. There are 
sometimes circumstances which seem to indicate that some farms, either from 
preventives used, or some other cause, were exempt from its visitation; but 
suddenly, without any apparent reason, it rages more violently and fatally there 
than any other place in the vicinity. I will give you a case in point, (one of 
several similar ones which occur to my mind.) ‘The owner of a large farm in an 
adjoining county has been in the habit of feeding about 150 head of hogs of 
his own raising every fall; his hogs were noted as the best in the county. ‘The 
farms adjoining his had frequently been scourged with the disease, but his had 
always escaped, until he had come to believe that it was on the account of some- 
thing peculiar in his location, and in his care of his hogs, and the belief in his 
neighborhood had become general that he was possessed of some preventive 
unknown to others. About the first of last September the cholera broke out 
among his hogs, and out of about 300 head, 150 of which were then about ready 
for the butcher, he had not enough left to make his family pork. 
“A case in point as to cures. A farmer was feeding, in the fall of 1865, up- 
wards of one hundred hogs in one lot, when the cholera, or what was considered 
cholera, made its appearance among them, and several had died, and others were 
sick, when he was told that stone coal was aremedy. He immediately procured 
a load and threw it to his hogs, when, to his surprise, the disease disappeared ; 
there were no more new cases, and those already affected recovered, and left my 
friend in the firm belief that stone coal was a certain remedy. In the fall of 
1866 the same man purchased one hundred head of hogs, (then in good condition 
and apparently healthy,) and took them to his farm to fatten; the next day 
after reaching home with them they began dying, when he immediately began 
feeding stone coal as before, but they continued to die till sixty out of the one 
hundred were dead. ‘The substances most generally used as cures or preventives 
are sulphur, black antimony, rosin, turpentine, crude petroleum, stone coal, char- 
coal, ashes, salt, &c. I fatted a lot of hogs last fall, to which I fed the ashes from 
aneighboring steam mill, where a mixed fuel of woud and coal was used, among 
which there was a considerable amount of both stone coal and charcoal, which 
dropped through the grates without being consumed. I am satisfied that it was 
good for the hogs, and they seemed very fond of it; when they had had none 
for a few days they would eagerly follow the wagon for it when it was driven 
into the lot where they were being fed; still I would by no means recommend 
it as a certain preventive of cholera.” 
Hancock county, Illinois —“ Hog cholera has prevailed to a considerable ex- 
tent in the last five or six years, and the yearly loss has been at least twenty- 
five per cent. In regard to remedies, all the usual ones recommended have 
been tried, but none of them proved certain as preventives or cures. Mr. Wil- 
liam Wack, an observant and wealthy farmer living in this county, has dis- 
covered a cure which he considers certain. Last spring his herd were attacked 
with the disease, and, notwithstanding he used all the usual remedies, he lost 
many. A valuable sow, which he was anxious to save, was attacked with the 
disease in its most virulent form, and, for the purpose of giving her better at- 
tention, he put her ina lot by herself; but the disease progressed until she was in 
the ‘last stage.” A cow in an adjoining lot had just dropped her calf, and, as 
her udder was very full, Mr. Wack drew the milk into a bucket, and gave it to 
the sick sow. Three or four hours afterwards he was astonished to find the 
animal eating food, and apparently free from the disease. He could conceive of 
no other cause for this sudden change than the fresh milk she had drunk. 
Having ten pigs ina pen having the disease in different stages, he gave them 
to drink freely of fresh milk, and all of them rapidly recovered. He then se- 
