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3. Hog Cholera — Preventive and Cure— 'Madder, sulphur, 

 resin, saltpetre and black antimony, each 1 lb., assafoetida, 3 oz. 



Directions. — " Pulverize and mix well ; then feed three table-spoonfuls to 

 each five hogs, three times a week, with a little salt, more bran, and ashes. 

 [I take it this would be stirred into moistened bran, or bran-slop, from what 

 he says below.] Commence feeding before the cholera gets into your neigh, 

 borhood, and continue until it ceases from the same ; and if, during the time 

 and before your hogs are properly medicated, one should take the disease, 

 immediately remove it to a dry pen. Give one table-spoonful of this mixture 

 in 1 gal. of water or table-slops once per day; and in order to make the cure 

 doubly sure, take one-half pint soft soap, 1 table-spoonful pine (common) tar 

 1 table-spoonful of lard ; warm and mix well, and drench the hog ; and mj 

 word for it, it will cure ninety-nine out of the hundred, 



" If you will treat the first one or two in this manner, the disease will 

 spread no further. And you must remember that as fast as the disease 

 spreads, or in a ratio to the number infected, its malignancy increases, until it 

 will almost defy control. 



Caution. — " If the season should be wet, keep your hogs on short timothy 

 pasture ; if dry, on the best growth clover you have, and these are valuable 

 helps. Sweet milk alone is said also to be good." 



Remarks.— It is considered very important, if a hog is attacked with the 

 ciisease, gets dumpish, lies around, or tries to get into the litter, or straw, of 

 Ihe pen, to remove him at once from the others, lest the disease spread, 

 although quite a good many writers claim the disease is not contagious. 

 Although it may not be contagious, yet perhaps it will spread in a herd if 

 the sick ones are not separated from the others. See the last paragraph 

 before the Caution above, as to its greater "malignancy," according to the 

 number infected 



Everything that will throw even the least light on the subject of hog 

 cholera is of such great importance that I cannot refrain from giving an 

 Iowa man's opinion upon the origin of this disease. It is from the Patron'i 

 Helper, of Iowa. It is based upon close confinement, i. e.. always in the same 

 pasture, and also upon ringing, to prevent their rooting up the soil. His 

 argument is strong, and his theory undoubtedly correct. Then let piggy's nose 

 go free to root as it pleases, as indicated below ; and also pay as much atten- 

 tion as possible to the plan of nice clover if the season is dry; and short 

 timothy if the season is wet, as given in the last paragraph, or Caution, above, 

 if you hope for success. The following are his ideas and argument : 



4. Hog Cholera— its Origin —"Let us watch our hogs in their ample 

 pasture. Some are browsing the herbage, some are destroying it by extracting 

 the roots. Otliers— what are they doing ? Tiiey are rooting into that woody 

 hillside; into that hard, calcareous soil. The crackling sound indicates that 

 they are eating the day icith its limesitom pebbles. What can this be for V Well, 

 we cannot tell. We know it is a fact. It may effect something chemically; 

 but we sometimes doubt that, it being too crude to enter into the animaJ 

 ecenomy. Perhaps its effect is mainly mechanical 



