CHAP. XXIV.] FARMING FOE, LADIES. 501 



ing nature, and not unfrequently by starva- 

 tion. The first can easily be cured by ab- 

 stinence, or a little soap-suds given with 

 their food will operate as physic ; and as to 

 the second, soap and water will have great 

 effect if both pigs and the sties be well 

 scrubbed with it, A few doses of an ounce 

 of saltpetre, mixed daily in a mash, with a 

 little nitre, will also soon remove it ; but if 

 not, an ointment made of equal parts of sul- 

 phur, mutton suet, and tar, rubbed about their 

 neck and ears, where it is most prevalent, will 

 soon effect a cure. 



The measles is not usually observed to 

 render the pigs sick, nor is it commonly dis- 

 covered until they are killed ; when it may 

 be seen in the grain of the meat, which is 

 punctured, as it were, with small whitish 

 pustules in the flesh. An appearance of 

 languor and failure of appetite, however, 

 generally denote a commencement of the 

 malady, which, it is thought, may be much 

 mitigated, if not removed, by giving small 

 quantities of levigated antimony in their 

 food. 



