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other words, placed in good hygienic conditions, and excluded from 

 diseased food. It may, perhaps, seem unnecessary to dwell upon 

 the value and necessity of measures which commend themselves at 

 once, as affording not only the best safeguard against the special 

 disease under notice, but as going far towards prevention of other 

 diseases to which the hog is subject; yet in view of neglect, arid 

 even positive abuse, with which hogs are treated throughout the 

 land, it is well that breeders should understand the fearful conse- 

 quences liable to result from carelessness, which, in matters of such 

 vital importance, is closely allied to criminality. 



Preventive of Disease. 



Mr. A. Y. Moore, the eminent Illinois breeder of Poland 

 Chinas, says, in his Swine Journal: ' For all general purposes of 

 health, and as a preventive of disease, I have for many years used 

 the following mixture with uniform and marked success. Take one 

 bushel of charcoal, small pieces, three bushels wood ashes; one half 

 bushel slaked lime; one-fourth bushel salt; two pounds Spanish 

 brown; five pounds sulphur; one-fourth pound saltpetre; one-half 

 bushel copperas. Pulverize the last two thoroughly; mix all in a 

 bin, box or barrel, and keep in an open trough, where the hogs can 

 have free access to it, and keep well moistened with good swill or 

 milk. If your herd is not large, or you lack a sufficient amount of 

 some of the ingredients, mix smaller amounts of each in the same 

 proportion. Aim to keep these articles at hand at all times, and do 

 not neglect their use; they contain certain chemical elements which 

 are wanting in every hog predisposed to disease. You will observe 

 by careful watching, that the animals that look the worst, and with 

 which, as you say, 'there seems to be something the matter,' are 

 the ones that will call on you to fill this trough the oftenest, and 

 they will usually visit it, either as they go to or return from their 

 feed." 



ANOTHER TREATMENT If hogs are not in a healthy condition, 

 put two or three pounds of sulphur in a barrel of mill feed, and 

 make a slop of it; of this feed them once or twice a day, and with 

 a clean, warm pen for winter and a clean, dry, cool place for sum- 

 mer, there will be no mortality among swine. 



To Cure Mange. 



1. A thorough application of vinegar, followed in a day or 

 two after with a wash of soap and water, will cure this difficulty. 

 The application should be made over the whole surface of the body. 



2. In lieu of the vinegar, a decoction of tobacco, in the ratio 

 of one to twenty five, is likewise effectual. Whenever this disease 

 is treated, it is essential to purify all objects with which animals 

 come in contact; thus all rubbing-places and sties should have a cov- 



