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as productive of a great many skin diseases. This discus- 

 sion has brought out what was new to me, and I presume 

 may be new to many of the audience, that the meat of 

 this animal, so objectionable when fed as it is ordinarily 

 fed, may become a medicine. 



]\Ir. Burnett. The statement comes directly from an 

 Englishman who has prepared that pork for the London 

 market. 



Secretary Russell. I recommend that this question be 

 discussed at the institutes, and the fact stated by Mr. Bur- 

 nett published in the newspapers. If you can only get some 

 of our fashionable Boston doctors to recommend barley-fed 

 pork, your fortunes are made. It will have a great run. 



I will say further, that four or five years ago I had a crop 

 of barley, and, there being no special market for the grain 

 at that time, I fed it to four pigs, and I never knew pigs fat 

 better. They were killed at seven months and a half old, 

 weighing about 225 pounds. I disposed of the pork in the 

 neighborhood. If I had known that it was medicinal I 

 should have got a high price for it. [Laughter.] I pro- 

 pose the next time I have barley-fed pork to get all the ad- 

 vantage out of it I can. 



Mr. Hartshorn. I wish to say one word in regard to 

 pork as a medicine. Some three years ago I received a 

 postal card from a gentleman in "Worcester, saying that he 

 wished to see me. I called on him and found he was sick. 

 He said the doctor had seen him and questioned him very 

 closely in regard to his diet, and among other things asked 

 him if he ate pork. "Pork! no; I have not eaten pork 

 for ten years. I don't use any lard ; I won't have it in my 

 family." The doctor said, " That is what is the matter with 

 you. You have got to eat pork, and my advice to you is to 

 go to some farm where you know you can get nice fresh 

 pork, have it cooked well, and eat it." That gentleman is 

 living to-day. I furnished him with pork for a year or two. 

 I don't know where he gets his pork now, or whether he has 

 given up eating it or not. 



The subject of caring for hogs and keeping them clean 

 has attracted my attention somewhat. I have kept hog? 

 under my stable, and I have had some trouble in this waj 



