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lected all that were affected with the disease, and treated them in the same way, 
and the result was the same; and not a hog has been lost by the disease on the 
plautation since that time. Mr. Wack is satisfied from these tests, and from 
others since made, that sweet miilk is not only a preventive but a certain cure 
for hog cholera.” 
Macomb, McDonough county, Illinois — It is as great a mystery as human 
cholera. Hogs on high ground, well ventilated, perhaps suffer less than those 
differently cared for. And I am not sure, even, that this is true; for I myself 
lost one hundred out of one hundred and fifty in a thirty-acre timber lot, which 
embraced a high knoll, and was well watered with a running stream.” 
Moultrie county, Illinois —* Hog cholera: loss at least forty per cent. of the 
hogs in this county. Best remedy found is—calomel, one ounce; arsenic, two 
ounces. Give the above in corn-meal swill to twelve hogs in the evening; 
follow next morning with one pound sal soda to eight gallons of slop, (wood 
ashes will do.) After the medicine has thoroughly worked off, give a teaspoon- 
ful of copperas each day to each hog for a few days.” 
Rock Island county, Illinois —“ My hogs were dying at the rate of from five 
to eight per day with cholera, when I gave to every twelve one quart of common 
lye mixed in ten quarts of milk, and not one died after that day. The milk 
was given to induce the hogs to drink the lye.” 
Alamakee county, Iowa.—‘ After losing about a dozen hogs by hog cholera, 
I removed the remainder to a small grassy enclosure, and bought five pounds of 
sulphur, two pounds of saltpetre, and two barrels of charcoal, upon which I fed 
them freely by placing the mixture in the trough with a liberal supply of salt 
and ashes. The hogs eat it freely, and I lost no more’ hogs or shoats. One 
fine hog was so much affected by the disease that it could not be induced to 
move for its feed or water. I carried her some milk with the above remedy in 
it. She drank it, and the next morning appeared well.” 
Davidson county, Tennessee—“The hog cholera has generally prevailed, and, 
from the best information at my command, at least one-fourth of the swine of 
this section have died of the disease within the past twelve months. Various 
remedies have been tried; but I have succeeded best by putting the afflicted 
hogs into a dry pen, and administering alkaline preparations. Corn rolled in 
strong wood ashes, or boiled with ashes, seems to have a good effect. Pine tar 
on the food is a favorite remedy.” 
Morgan county, Georgia.—‘The hog cholera has prevailed very generally 
throughout the county, some farmers losing almost their stock of hogs. So 
destructive has this disease become that a great many will abandon pork rais- 
ing, and depend on the north and west for their supply. Four hundred hogs 
died on one plantation. Average annual loss fully fifty per cent.” 
Amite county, Mississippi.—* Hog cholera has prevailed here to some extent, 
confined principally to the young hogs; the loss supposed to be at least one-fourth 
of that class of hogs. The treatment that proved most effectual was a solution 
of salt and water, in which was incorporated a small portion of sulphur and 
lard; but with all the attention we could give, many died.” 
Attala county, Mississippi. We have had some hog cholera, and our farmers 
lost from twenty to eighty per cent. But few have escaped loss to some extent. 
All remedies used years ago failed, and none now known except green sorghum, 
which, of course, can only be procured at certain seasons of the year.” 
Washington county, Mississippi—<There has been some hog cholera in this 
county, but not very destructive. Loss in the county about three hundred 
head. The only remedy I know of is to give the animal plenty of salt and 
wood ashes.” 
White county, Arkansas.—“ Having lived in the great hog-raising country 
south of the Green river, and having frequently suggested remedies for the cure 
and prevention of the disease known as hog cholera, I am convinced that I have 
