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remedy deserving of any considerable share of the 

 keeper's attention. This should chiefly extend to 

 the avoidance of infection by foul air, of damps and 

 cold, and of the extremes of either starving or gorg- 

 ing the animals. Sulphur and madder are the best 

 alterants, in foulnesses of the skin or habit. In the 

 SWINE POX, the same medicines in small quantities, 

 with treacle in the wash, fresh brewers' grains, or 

 sweet pollard, the sties being well ventilated, or the 

 animals aired abroad. Inflammation of the lungs, or 

 HEAVINGS, seem to admit of no remedy, and is some- 

 times found to be constitutional or hereditary in 

 swine. When the EARS of swine crack, and become 

 scabby in the field during the summer heats, they 

 should be frequently anointed with tar and lard. 



Four or five and twenty years ago, the late Mr. 

 Tattersall requested of me to choose him a store pig 

 to put up for fattening. I applied to Mr. Wynt, the 

 then salesman, and we chose one at Finchley, out of 

 a fine drove of Hereford*, not then out of fashion. 

 After the hog had been at Mr. Tattersall's two or 

 three days, I received a letter from him to tell me 

 it was taken very bad, in fact, dying. On inspec- 

 tion, I found the animal sleepy and torpid, refusing 

 food, but occasionally throwing up the contents of 

 its stomach, which consisted of half-digested meal. 

 I immediately perceived the cause of the patient's 

 malady. The feeder, determined to lose no time, 

 had been assiduously filling the trough with food, 

 which the hog, empty after a long journey, vora- 

 ciously devoured until its stomach was filled, and its 

 digestive faculty totally overpowered. My prescrip- 

 tion was abstinence from corn, a moderate quantity 



