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ing flour of brimstone, mixed with salt, to horned cattle and sheep, 

 as a preventive of animalcular and insectivorous diseases, has a 

 well-spread and established reputation. The external application 

 of pine tar to the mangers, feeding-boxes, Avater troughs and muz- 

 zles of animals, experience has proved useful. I recommend pul- 

 verized camphor, mixed with coal tar, reduced with coal oil to 

 the consistency of paint, to prevent disease in stables." 



The Prairie Farmer, Chicago, says : "Of many hundred spec- 

 imens of pork which have been examined by scientific men of this 

 , city, one in every fifty have been found more or less infected. 

 Let this, however, cause no alarm, for it only proves pretty con- 

 clusively that with the same thorough investigation the worms 

 would have been found years ago, and there is no reason to sup- 

 pose that there are more now than there have ever been. Some 

 of the deaths in the army may have been caused by eating raw 

 pork, particularly those cases of diarrhoea and fever which were 

 accompanied by irritation and soreness of the muscles; but in a 

 country where meat is as thoroughly cooked as it is in ours, there 

 is little to be feared from this scourge. Therefore, let all those 

 who are lovers of pork, and still have plenty on hand, not get 

 panic-stricken and ' throw the meat to the dogs,' or even desist 

 from using it; but console themselves with the idea that they have 

 probably eaten infected pork long before they knew anything 

 about trichina, and they may do so again with perfect impunity, 

 so long as they are cautious about having it thoroughly cooked. 

 Discard all raw pork in any shape whatever, and always bear in 

 mind that this trichina dies at a temperature of 160'', which is 62^ 

 below the boiling point." 



Is Pork Unwholesome ? 

 Dr. Flint gives a few facts in answer to some of the theories of 

 anti-pork eaters about its uuwholesomeness as food. " My father 

 was of a consumptive family, but regular in his habits, diligent in 

 business, a pork-eater all his life, and died from a billions attack 

 when seventy-five years old. My mother, now eighty-three years 

 old, and with ample vitality to indicate an additional earthly sojourn 

 of ten or fifteen j^ears, has, always been a hearty pork-eater, and 

 still eats of it with a relish daily. My maternal grandmother was 

 a life-long pork-eater, and died aged ninety-six years. I am now 

 fifty-five years old, have endured as much exposure perhaps as any 

 man of my age in the State, have always indulged bountifully in 



