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"A small, early maturing hog 's much more valuable than a large one, ait 

 no more food will be required to raise two good, quick-growing ones than foi 

 a large but slow, all-lard-hog." 



Remarks. — Some of both would be my plan ; let others suit themselves. 



1. Hog Cholera— Its Cause and Best Know^n Remedies. — 

 Cause. — A writer for the Country Gentleman, of Bronson, Mich, speaking of 

 the cause of cholera in hogs says: "I have never known an iustance of 

 cholera among hogs that had clean quarters and were fed regularly, kept warm 

 and dry, although fed exclusively on corn, if they had also pure drink. The 

 disease is not caused by any one thing alone, but by a combination of manj 

 unfavorable circumstances. To put a hog into a cold, wet, muddy place, 

 exposed to hot days and chilling nights, compelled to pick its food out of the 

 dirt and filth and drink from a filthy trough or hole, are enough to make the 

 best of the swine race sick. All such abuses invite a sure penalty, and the 

 wonder is that more do not get cholera, or something else, and die." 



Remarks. — All writers upon this subject agree upon the same things, but 

 none of them put it in such terse, or plain language. Some have written half 

 A column, and some more, and not said half as much as this writer, with hig 

 few notea. Then give hogs clean quarters, feed them regularly, keep them 

 warm and dry, feed corn, or any other suitable feed, and see that they have 

 plenty or pure water, if you would avoid cholera. If you allow the other 

 conditions of cold, wet and mud, and only a dirty hole to drink out of, it 

 deems pretty certain that, generally, you will pay the penalty by losing your 

 hogs. You see the difference, "you takes your choice." 



"Ringing" Hogs Claimed to be a Cause of Cholera.— Quite a 

 good many writing upon this subject of hog cholera, claim that the 

 unhealthful habit of "ringing" hogs is a prominent cause of this disease; 

 together with the habit of always keeping hogs in the same pasture frorr; year 

 to year A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette ^ni it in the foUowmg shape? 



"Another cause," he says, "is found m hogs occupymg one heia or peo 

 from year to year, without cleansing, or plowing under, the acci/7hvlated filth, 

 the hog constantly " rung," denying him a taste or smell of fresh earth, or 

 the use of an instinct that teaches him in bilious derangements to search for 

 busrs, worms, or vegetable roots, the natunil excitants of stomach, liver and 

 bowels. Another cause is scanty feeding, muddy, stagnaut and filthy water, 

 oblisring' them *^" allay their thirst often from the draining c^ ^heir own 

 discharges. 



• • When tL<, uisease first made its appearance a few years ago, it was 

 characterized by many symptoms resembling cholera in the human being, 

 even watery discharges, emaciation and rapid waste. Its most usual form now 

 is loss of vitality, emaciation and drying up, with occasion .1 paralysis, or nn 

 entire suspension of secretions; no discharges; with an inflammHtory state <.-f 

 the liver, sympathetically affecting head, throat and lungs." 



Remarks. — This last idea cannot be doubted, and hence should never be 

 allowed. A "change of pasture" for hogs is of as much importance, and 

 will give them as much pleasure and benefit as for other stork The following 

 receipt is this writer's plan of preventing, as well as curing \ht disease : 



