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hogs to consume all as they fall. It is probably the best thing to do to turn 

 them into the orchard; as those that fall early, especially, contain the moth, 

 whose sting, or eating into its heart, has caused it to fall thus early. The word 

 codlin, as Shakespeare has it, means "almost an apple," hence we get the 

 "codlin," or "codling moth" — a moth that makes codlins, or early falling 

 apples, which, if not eaten or picked up soon and carried out of the orchard, 

 the moth will return to the tree for further depredation and its own increase. 

 " The destruction of the early fallen apples also destroys the moths and saves 

 the remainder left upon the trees." 



Sows Eating their Pigs, to Prevent, and Cure the Habit.— I. 

 To prevent it, keep a trough of the following mixture where all the hogs can 

 have access to it: "Wood ashes, salt, sulphur and powdered charcoal, in about 

 equal bulk, mixed, and see especially that sows partake of it about this period ; 

 then if they commence the eating of their young, give them in small pieces one 

 pound of salt pork; and ten or twelve hours later give them half as much 

 more as long as they will eat it, and see also that they have frequent tastes of 

 this preventive mixture. 



n. To Cure the Habit.— A little salt daily and a handful of charcoal 

 to each hog once a week, it is claimed, will prevent cholera and other diseases; 

 then, if the above mixture is kept where all hogs can eat of it at their pleasure, 

 the author will guarantee it preferable to the salt and charcoal alone. Still, 

 if cholera was prevailing in a neighborhood, he would advise some of the pre- 

 ventives found under that head, having antimony, saltpeter, etc., with the salt 

 and charcoal. Keep on the safe side is a good motto to go by. And it is by 

 thus satisfying the natural desire for what their systems need, that a ravenous 

 taste is prevented, that of eating their pigs. 



Scurvy Pigs, Simple Remedy.— Wash the scurvy hair and all parts 

 troubled with the scurf thoroughly every day for a few times with buttermilk. 

 A fanner who has tried this so many times as to be sure of hia position, says: 

 "It will entirely and speedily remove the scurf.'* 



Lice on Hogs, Easy Remedy.—" Carbolic acid 1 oz. to water, 10 

 ozs., makes a wash that destroys the lice without injury to the hog." Then it 

 would on other animals, as cattle, cats, dogs, fowls, etc. 



Kidney-Worm in Hogs and "Fluke" in Sheep, Remedy for. 

 — The Rural Alabamian asserts that kidney -worms in hogs, and the fluke- 

 worms that infest the livers of sheep are identically the same. A parasitic 

 insect— an insect drawing its whole support from another animal, as lice upou 

 an animal, or worms in them— and the editor claims also " that lye made from 

 hard-wood ashes, if given daily, will work a cure; also rubbing turpentine 

 upon the loins." 



Reinarks.— There is nothing said as to the amount to be given, but we 

 should say, if the lye is pretty strong, two or three table-spoonfuls in a small 

 amount of slop, two or three times daily, would be plenty. Of course it 

 could not be given without diluting, else it would destroy the mucous mem- 



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