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drachms. Epsom salt is also a good purgative ; the 

 dose from one to two ounces.' 



Nothing tends more effectually to preserve the 

 health and promote the growth of pigs, than the 

 liberal use of hay-tea. Clover, sainfoin, and lucern, 

 are the best. The tea should be thickened with 

 either grains, or bran, or pollard, or any kind of 

 meal, or boiled cabbages, or boiled potatoes. Car- 

 rots also are excellent, when they can be procured. 

 This, given in a lukewarm state twice a day will 

 produce a wonderful effect in quickening the 

 growth, and giving a rich and delicious flavour to 

 the flesh. The hay should be inclosed in a net, and 

 the potatoes should be steamed over the tea, whilst 

 gently boiling or simmering. The hay, after boil- 

 ing, may bfe dried, and perhaps offered to store cattle, 

 or else thrown to the pigs as litter, or to add to the 

 dung-heap. The soporific qualities of this wash dis- 

 poses the animal to sleep ; and Mr. Saunders, in the 

 Agricultural Magazine, affirms, that one sack of 

 meal used to thicken this wash, will go as far as 

 two sacks in the common mode. 



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THE DISEASES OF DOGS. 



JL HIS truly valuable creature has engaged the 

 attention of mankind from the earliest ages, and the 

 utmost care has been taken in training and render- 

 ing him subservient to the important purposes of 

 domestic utility : but the proper treatment of the 

 various disorders to which he is subjected, like 



