746 VR CE^SE'i, RECIPES. 



He does not tell us, tut, of course, all should be pulverized and evenly 

 mixed; and for dose and manner of giving, see " Hog Cholera Preventive and 

 Cure," where quite a similar mixture is given — except less antimony, and 

 the author would not use more than 2 lbs. of the antimony here given. He 

 closed as follows : 



" I have used as a remedy, with good result, carbolic acid, given in slop 

 and sprinkled on the bedding of the sick hogs. Several weeks after, the dis- 

 eased hogs recovered; they became strong and healthy, after every hair had 

 come off. The hogs opened, that had died with choleio., generally had their 

 stomachs full of worms." 



III. The third is from 0. B. Nichols, of Carlyle, Clintoxi county, also an 

 extensive breeder. He says : 



" I believe the disease contagious, because one-half to three^ourths of the 

 herd die, as a general thing, when allo\fed to run and sleep together." And 

 closed by saying : " While last year my neighbors suffered heavy bosses, 

 mine escaped the cholera, as I believe, by good feeding and good keeping, iind 

 by giving them plenty of ^\i.— Springfield {111.) Corre-opondent of Chicago 

 Tribune. 



Hog Cholera— Two Well-Tried Cures for.— The Greenville (IlL. 

 Advocate published these cures : " The first is from a correspondent at Mill 

 Grove, who says the receipt was first published in the Prairie Farmer some 

 years since. The quantity given is for 100 hogs and is mixed with slop to 

 have enough for a few doses, say one pint of the slop to the hog, each time. 

 The following is the receipt : 



I. "Sulphur, 2 lbs. ; black antimony, ^ lb.; arsenic, 2 oz. 



" Our correspondent says he has tried it on a lot of fifty hogs, and curec' 

 All that were able to walk to the trough to eat the slop. 



" The Second.— 'Pxol. J. B. Turner published the following preventives in 

 Ihe same paper {Prairie Farmer), which our correspondent says he has seen 

 used with perfect satisfaction : 



n. "Wood ashes, 1 pk,; salt, 4 lbs.; black antimony, copperas and 

 sulphur, each, 1 lb. ; saltpetre, J lb. Pulverize and mix, moisten and put in a 

 trough under a shed, where the hogs can have free access to it. 



8. Hog Cholera, Preventive and. Cure. — Maoris Rural New 

 Yorker publishes the following : " We have recently published reports of a 

 new and dangerous hog disease now prevailing in the western states. Hon. T. 

 C. Jones, of Ohio, publishes in the Delaware, 0., Oazette the following pre« 

 ventive treatment with directions what to do in case of an attack • 



"'A mixture of ashes (wood), 1 pk.; salt, 4 lbs.; copperas, 7 lbs.; 

 sulphur, 1 lb.; kept constantly in a trough, is of great service. If predis- 

 posed to cholera, hogs will eat it more freely than when free from aU symp= 

 toms. If a hog gets down, try to get into him a gill (4 oz.) of coal oil in slops; 

 it has sometimes been effective when other remedies have failed.' " 



Remarks. — If 1 lb. of black antimony, pulverized, was added to the above 

 I think it would be all the better for it. "Coal oil," of course, means 

 •'kerosene," which is getting to be used by some physicians for persons, 



