748 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



Dose, fur a large hog, 1 tea-spoonful 3 times a day. For a hog less than 190 

 lbs., a level tea-spoonful only; smaller according to size. 



Remarks. — He does not say how to give it, bi'* like the others, I should 

 give it in a little slops ; or if the hog is too dumpish ;o eat, drench it in a little 

 slop or gruel. He claims to have used it successfully in every case, from the 

 commencement of the disease in his neighborhood. It being his condition 

 powder, in use by him for ten years for horses. If diarrhoja in the hogs hat- 

 set in, he takes alum, 2 ozs., and white-oak inner bark, 2 ozs., steeping the 

 bark, mixing in the alum, and gives; and if it continues obstinate he gives 

 lard, 1 lb. melted with spirits of turpentine, 1 table-spoonful ; continuing the 

 powder till the hair is bright, and the skin clean and healthy. He says it 

 never failed him in ten years use of it, even in the last stages of the disease. 



For Chickens — He says, also, it is good for chicken cholera, 1 tea 

 spoonful in 1 pmt of dough for 1 dozen chickens. 



We shall have something now to say upon the subject of feeding and 

 fattening hogs, and also upon the question as to the value of charcoal or 

 carbon in some form as preventive as well as curative of other diseases, as 

 diarrhoea or scours of hogs, arising from over-feeding while fattening, etc. 

 The importance of charcoal for hogs while fattening is so generally believed 

 we can scarcely open an agricultural paper which does not have something in its 

 columns upon it. I will give the opinions of a few papers and persons, whose 

 experience enables them to write what they know, and what the author feels 

 assured he can recommend to his readers, to go and do likewise, expecting to 

 receive the same satisfaction. Under the head of 



Carbon for Hogs, the Western Rural says: 



"There is no doubt in our m;nd of the benefit from feeding crude carbon- 

 aceous matter to swine when they are kept in close pens. The avidity with 

 which hogs eat rotten wood is well know;n. Charcoal is but another form of 

 carbon. Bituminous (having a kind of mineral filth in it, over soft mineral 

 coal,) is still another form. The utility of feeding wood and coal has long 

 been recognized. We, some years since, substituted the ordinary Western 

 stone coal with the best results, where from two to five hundred hogs were 

 kept in close pens and fed on the refuse of the city hotels. Something of the 

 kind seems as necessary to ihem as salt to strictly herbivorous (herb- eating) 

 animals. We have known them to consume a pound in the course of a day, 

 and again they would not seek the coal for some time. Just what particular 

 use the coal is in the animal economy is not so easy to answer. Swine are 

 especially liable to scrofulous and inflammatory diseases. Carbon, in the shape 

 of coal, is an antiseptic, and the probability is that it acts in this way in puri- 

 fying the blood.' 



Charcoal, or Burnt Com for Hoers.— Under this head the New 

 England Farmer says : 



"We have but little doubt ihat charcoal is one of the best known reme- 

 dies for the disordered state into which hogs drift ; usually having disordered 

 bowels, all the time giving off the worst kinds of evacuation. Probably the 

 best form in which charcoal can be given is in the form of burnt corn — per- 

 haps, because when given in other forms the hogs do not get enough. A 

 distillery was burnt in Illinois, about which a large number of hogs were kept 

 Cholera prevailed among these hogs somewhat extensively. In the burning o\ 



