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pail of the soap to fifty hogs, put in a. kettle, add water and two 

 pounds of copperas, boil it, then add dish water or milk (or any- 

 thing to make it taste good) till you have about what the hogs will 

 drink. Place enough of the mixture, while warm, for twenty-tive 

 hogs to drink in troughs in a separate lot. Just as you are ready 

 to let the hogs in, scatter two pounds of soda in the troughs ; the 

 object is to have it foaming as the hogs come to drink. Be sure 

 that every hog drinks, and if he will not drink, put him in the 

 hospital; if you cannot get him to drink, then knock him in the 

 head, for he will give the cholera to the rest. After twenty -five 

 have had all they will drink, let in twenty-five more, and continue 

 till the whole are treated. The next day -I go through with the 

 same operation. After the second day, skip a day; then give for 

 two days, and you may turn them out cured. I generally give the same 

 dose once a week to my hogs. An important point is to make the 

 hog drink, and if he will not take it in any other way, add new 

 milk or put in sugar." As an evidence of his entire faith in his 

 remedy and mode of administering it, Mr. Long offered " to pay 

 ten cents a pound for every hog he could not cure, provided the hog 

 was not past drinking." 



ANOTHER To cure this disease, take of 



Sal-soda 2 pounds. 



Sulphur , 1 " 



Saltpetre " 



This will make four doses for forty head; to be given riight and 

 morning. 



ANOTHER- Turnips have been found a specific for hog cholera, 

 and should be t'ud once a day. Those who have used them say they 

 never fail to cu-3. 



PREVENTIVE To prevent hog cholera take one peck of charcoal, 

 one pound of cape-aloes, one pound of rosin, one pound of sulphur; 

 mix and keep in the bottom of the trough. 



To Prevent Trichinae. 



To prevent trichinae from infesting your hogs, it is necessary 

 to remember that the most likely sources of the parasite are the ani- 

 mal offal and garbage which they eat when allowed to run at large, 

 and the rats they are apt to devour when they can get at them ; in 

 illustration of which fact it may be mentioned that the hogs in Ire- 

 land, which are allowed much more liberty of wandering, and less 

 regularly fed than their cogeners in England and Prussia, are more 

 apt than these others to present the trichinae upon microscopic in- 

 vestigation. It is therefore advisable to keep hogs intended for 

 human consumption in clean sties, containing only one or two each, 

 and impervious to rats, or else keep them in clean pastures. If the 

 animals are kept in pens they should be plentifully fed with sound 

 grain, milk, etc., watered, and allowed some salt occasionally; in 



