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HOGS. 

 CARE AND TREATMENT. 



Keep your hogs in good clean fields ; give them access to pure 

 water even though you should be compelled to dig a well for that 

 purpose; a good pump and plenty of suitable troughs, cleansed 

 every week, will cost but little and will always prove a valuable out- 

 lay. Provide also, in the dryest part of the field, a good shelter, 

 both from sun and rain. And by no means allow them to sleep on 

 old straw or manure. Leaves or dry ground make healthy beds. In 

 troughs, near by their resting-place, once each week place a com- 

 position of salt, soda and red pepper. To four parts of the first 

 article add one part of the latter. Our common red peppers will do 

 very well ; they should, however, be well pulverized, and all the 

 ingredients thoroughly mixed. Most healthy animals will readily 

 devour salt. To obtain it they will also take the alkali and the stimu- 

 lant. It is not oifered as a patent remedy, but simply as a preventive 

 of the injurious effect of the foul gases and pestiferous filth in which 

 hogs wallow. Exclusive grain feeding has a tendency to produce 

 cholera; therefore other kinds of food should be employed in con- 

 nection with grain. Among the best are artichokes and turnips. 

 Hogs should have free access to mud and water. They seem to be 

 natural disinfectants. 



Stone-coal or charcoal should be kept where they can have free 

 access to it. 



DISEASES OF HOGS. 



Unfailing Cure for Cholera. 



At a meeting of stock breeders and farmers of Iowa, 

 held at West Liberty, Mr. J. S. Long, of Jasper County, 

 referring to hog cholera, said he would give some experience that 

 would be of value to all. Years ago he lost thousands of dollars' 

 worth of hogs ; but for six years he had not lost any ; and he had a 

 remedy which, if any one would use, he would warrant they would 

 lose no more hogs, provided they did exactly as he said, and the h jgs 

 were not past drinking so they could not take the medicine. He 

 had tried it in hundreols of cases, and never had a failure; was now 

 engaged in buying lots of hogs where cholera prevailed; bought 250 

 recently, and found no trouble in curing them. His remedy is this: 

 "Make concentrated lye into good soap by the usual rule ; take one 



