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Mr. Mustard. Was the sow running on clover, and did you give her butter- 

 milk or pickles, anything of that nature? 



Mr. WiUiamti. Yes; but I gave no buttermilk, neither any spoiled pickles or 

 sour slop. 



Mr. Mustard. Your pigs could have been saved easily. My remedy is to take 

 raw eggs; but if the pig won't eat the raw egg, boil some milk and after it cools 

 put an egg in the milk, and for a severe case put in a little copperas. This remedy 

 is a sure cure for the scours every time; will also have good effect on a colt or calf. 



Mr. Williams. I never failed to stop scours with copperas. 



Mr. Mustard. Milk and eggs is the best remedy in the world for sick hogs. 



Mr. Williams. I have fed colts sometimes with this which done well. 



Mr. WiUiurns. I tried sulphate of iron with good success. I would like to hear 

 something about feeding sour slop ; I do not know which is best. 



3Ir. Mustard. Do you have reference to the best method of feeding sour slop? 

 I mix mine up with water and bran ; when it sours I put a teaspoonful of soda to 

 a bucket of sour slop and put it right in the trough while it is foaming. If you 

 want to start the worms you can do it with that. I always sour my slop and put 

 soda in it; but you don't want to feed this when the hogs are on clover or a wet 

 time if the hogs are loose ; but feed it in this way along in August. Some farmers 

 seem to think that cholera is caused by turning ou wheat stubble and the hogs eat- 

 ing an overgorge of wheat. It is no such thing. 



Mr. Williams. Sweet slop don't do so well. 



Mr. Mustard. It won't foam ; you must have the acid in it. 



Mr. Dye. My experience is very favorable to feeding slop, but if I feed sour 

 slop to the mother when the pigs were under six weeks old, it was very apt to give 

 them the scours. I have tried giving soda to prevent scours, but never aim to feed 

 sour slop if I can avoid it. I would rather have sweet feed for pigs. 



Mr. Mustard. I would use sweet feed until the dry months; when it is dry and 

 hot I put in the soda. 1 have put carbolic acid in slop. Willi pumpkin feed and 

 carbolic acid we can defy all those advertised medicines, which are not worth one 

 cent. Carbolic acid is good used in the crude state to sprinkle the hogs' houses 

 and bedding, say a teacupful of acid in two gallons o;f water, and keep stirring 

 and sprinkling. I prefer the crystalized carbolic acid to use inwardly. If you 

 can not keep the cholera off with this you need not send for a hog doctor, unless it 

 be a man with a shovel to dig a hole for them. The reason I do not use the crude 

 inwardly is because there is difference in the strength, while the crystalized car- 

 bolic acid is of the same strength. Should the acid be too strong it may be weak- 

 ened with glycerine, and before using shake up well. The man who uses this 

 remedy can pull through. The hogs of my neighbors have died all around me, 

 and I have raised 200 hogs and not lost one. 



Mr Dye. I have had some little experience with carbolic acid, and some ex- 

 perience with patent medicines. While I used carbolic acid I never lost a hog 

 with the cholera, and had cholera on three sides of me. I have had all the ex- 

 perience I want in patent medicines. I have used the preparation of Dr. Haas as 

 a preventive, also Dr. Cline's "Hog Cholera Cure." 1 used Dr. Haas and Dr. 

 Rogers for destroying worms. My loss resulting from the UbC of those patent 

 medicines is in the neighborhood of $G00. 



