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THE FARM. 



happens to be prevailing, they are ahnost certain to be affected with that 

 disease, as their systems, under such management, are rendered predisposed 

 or susceptible thereto. In many places the hogs are kept in miserable sheds, 

 no provision being made for proper drainage, the ground sloping toward, the 

 sheds, which frequently being unpaved, or without proper flooring, are con- 

 stantly damp and wet, while pools of urine and filth a])ound, and with wind 

 and sleet approaching from all quarters. In proportion as the standard of 

 breeding has become higher, so has the vital force, energy, and hardiness 

 become lessened; and the effects of improper quantity and quality of food, 

 filthy or stagnant water, faulty construction of houses, and undue exposure 

 to atmospheric influences, have become proportionately more baneful. 



A Good Pig Sty. — ^We famish herewith a plan for a good pig sty, with a 

 detailed description showing the best manner of constructing the same. Our 

 illustration represents the ground floor, 25 feet wide by 32 feet long. A is an 

 entry five feet wide, running the whole length of the building, with a door 

 at each end; it is used for feeding, as the troughs in boxes b, b, b, b, run 

 along one side of it. The roof extends only over the entry (a) and the boxes 



b, b, b, b. The boxes c, 



c, c, c, are not under the 

 roof. The whole building 

 is floored with plank, with 

 a shght'depressionin grade 

 toward the front of about 

 half an inch to the foot, for 

 the purpose of drainage. 

 The inside partitions need 

 not be more than about 

 four feet high. The small 

 door between b and c is 

 hung by hinges from the 

 top, so as to open either 

 way, made to work easy, 



not reaching quite to the floor. The pig soon learns to push it open and j 

 pass through, and the door closes after it. When pigs are put into thej 

 boxes, one corner of the box floor (c) should be made tm, and the jiigs willj 

 be careful not to wet anywhere else. 0, o, o, o, are feeding troughs. Thoj 

 height of the biiilding should be seven or eight feet. No bedding is required. | 

 Keep the floor clean. 



Hog Cholera. —The Lewistown GazeUe, published in Fulton County, HI.,! 

 says: " Every paper in the United States ought occasionally to keep, the fact 

 before its readers that burnt corn is a certain and speedy cure for hog chol-- 

 era. The best way is to make a pile of corn on the cobs, effectually scorchi 

 it, and then give the affected hogs free access to it. This remedy was dia-l 

 covered by E. E. Lock at the time his distillery in this county was burned,! 

 together vnih a large lot of store corn, which was so much injured as to be^ 

 unfit for use, and was hauled out and greedily eaten by the hogs, several of 

 which were dying daily. After the second day not a single hog was lost, 

 and the disease was eutirely conquered. The remedy has been tried in a 

 number of cases since, and never failed." 



The Washington (Iowa) 'rnzettf says Mr. Douahuy, of that place, furuishcn 

 the following recipe for the cure of hog cholera: To prevent hogs from hav- 



A GOOD PIG STY. 



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