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at last found an effective remedy, one which I have never known to fail in a 
single instance when constantly used, though the hogs frequented herds in which 
the disease prevailed. The remedy is simply to boil the corn (shelled or in the 
ear) in hickory wood ashes, and feed it to the hogs every morning while the 
disease is in the vicinity. The hogs will thrive under it whether diseased or 
not.” 
Tippah county, Mississippi—* Loss from hog cholera twenty-five per cent. of 
the entire crop of last year, and a still larger proportion has been lost in former 
years by this dreadful malady; since 1855 it is estimated that the loss from this 
disease alone has been fifty per cent. annually, not in the same proportion, how- 
ever, every year. All treatment futile.” 
Winston county, Mississippi The loss from hog cholera must be near one- 
third of the hogs in the county.” 
Mississippi county, Arkansas —* Dr. A. M. Johnson, who has practiced in 
this State and Illinois through several seasons of Asiatic cholera, says he has 
never known hog cholera to prevail during the existence of that epidemic.” 
Remedies—The general testimony is, that medication is useless. As a pre- 
ventive, many are hopeful of the influence of a favorite remedy. Yet they often 
find their care for prevention utterly valueless. Some correspondents offer 
“ sovereign remedies.” The recommendations, when considered in the aggregate, 
would deplete a well-stocked apothecary shop. It may serve to amuse, if it 
does not instruct, to refer to the formidable list, which is, in part, as follows: 
Copperas, sal soda, saltpetre, ashes, salt, soap, gas-lime, coal oil, tar, bitumin- 
ous coal, charcoal, lime, ley and milk, sulphur, sulphate of iron, black antimony, 
calomel, podophyllum, opium, arsenic, corrosive sublimate, sulphate of zine, 
alum water, spirits of turpentine, smartweed tea, soapsuds, poke root, tobacco 
and persimmon bark, assateetida, mandrake, garget root, &c. 
HARVEST PROSPECTS. 
Never has there been so general an expression of encouragement, in view of 
the fine condition of winter wheat, since the establishment of the present system 
for the collection of crop statistics. In more than nine-tenths of the returns 
received, the condition of the crop is reported favorable and promising. From 
the south the returns are as cheering as from the west. 
Here and there it is stated that a smaller breadth, from lack of labor or from 
bad weather in the fall, was sown or drilled. In a few places winter-killing is 
reported. 
The following are among the drawbacks reported : 
Morrow county, Ohio—But half a crop was sown in consequence of a wet fall. 
Outogamie county, Wisconsin.—Winter-killed on old ground, but escaped on 
new ground. 
Ottawa county, Michigan—Badly frozen for want of snow. 
Randolph county, Illinois —Fyrom the 12th to the 18th of March there was 
heavy frost, which froze out the wheat. 
Richland county, Illinois —W inter-killed—half a crop expected. 
Henry county, Ohio —KEarly sown did well—the late was killed. 
Livingston county, Michigan.—But little killed. 
Marshall county, West Virginia.—W heat is fine, although the alternate freez- 
ing and thawing of March was severe. 
Washington county, Illinois —W inter-killed—half ploughed up. 
Lawrence county, Illinois —W heat injured from freezing during March. 
Bell county, Texas —Injured by freezing. 
Linn, (and other countics,) Kansas.—Destroyed by grasshoppers. 
On the contrary, many correspondents promise an extraordinary crop, some 
of them double the usual quantity. 
