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have much food for a few days after the operation, 

 until the wound begins to heal. 



For a fever, — Let them bleed in the tail, and give 

 them, thrice a day, water wherein pepper and parsnip 

 roots have been boiled. 



For the swine pox. — Take an t)unce of nitre, pound 

 it, and dissolve it in a pint of cider ; add to it half a 

 pint of sweet oil and one spoonful of honey, to be 

 given to the swine lukewarm. 



For catarrhs. — Take two ounces of coriander seed, 

 one of ginger, three of honey, and half an ounce of 

 tumeric ; let it be powdered fine and boiled in three 

 quarts of new milk, then let the hog drink it. 



Of drenches. — It is a practice among people in 

 general, when their hogs are sick, to put a rope in their 

 mouths and h*ang them up to drenching. This is a 

 very bad practice ; for while you are pouring your 

 medicine down, the hog will squeak, and ten to one 

 the liquid goes down the windpipe and chokes him. 

 If you can give your hog his medicine in milk or some 

 other food, that he will drink, it is well ; if not, do 

 not force it down in the manner of drenching, but give 

 it to him in the form of a glyster. This is always 

 safe, and as effectual as any method whatever. 



Issues. — The issues in a hog are places on the in- 

 side of their legs, which are porous, like a pepper-box 

 top. Here, it seems, is the most immediate outlet for 

 the superfluous fluid of the body ; when these get 

 stopped (as hogs are fond of filth and mire) the hog 

 loses his appetite, and becomes sick; then to drench- 

 ing and choking as before hinted ; whereas, if his 

 issues were rubbed and picked open, he would imme- 

 diately recover. 



Fattening of Swine. — The Hon. Mr. Peters, of Penn- 

 sylvania, has asserted that fatting hogs should always 

 be supplied with dry rotten wood, which should be 



