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ing cholera, quinsv, or pneumonia, use one gallon of soft soap, four ounces of 

 Balti)etre, and half a pound of copperas. Mis well in swiU, and feed to about 

 forty hogs in one day. In four or five days give the foUo^ving: Carbolic acid, 

 eight drams, black antimony, two ounces, half pound of sulphur. Mis 

 well in swill, and feed to about forty hogs in two days. Repeat the above 

 <mce a month, and it will prevent any of the above diseases. I have used it 

 for ten years without a single case of any disease among my hogs. 



A simple cure for hog cholera, says the Keniucky Live Stock Record, is 

 ui infusion of peach-tree leaves and small twigs in boiling water, given in 

 their slop. Peach leaves are lasative, and they probably esert, to a moderate 

 extent, a sedative influence over the nervous system. They have been used 

 u a worm destroyer with reported success. They have also been recom- 

 mended as an infusion for irrilabiUty of the bladder, in sick stomach and 

 whooping cough. The cases of fatal poisoning from their use in children are 

 on record, as peach leaves contain prussic or hydrocyanic acid, but as it is 

 almost impossible to poison a hog, their use would not be objectionable. The 

 specific is worth a trial. 



The report of the Georgia Agricultural Department has a statement to the 



j eflFect that forty cases of hog cholera were averted, if not cured, by turning 



f ihe animals on to a quarter of an acre of clover, to graze for one week. It 



' kas long been held that this disease springs mainly from malnutrition, amd 



• 'o m)ich feeding on com or other carbonaceous food. The fact that clover 



a nitrogenous fodder — in this case averted the threatened disease is of 



_reat interest. The culture and use of clover in the South may through this 



knowledge be greatly estended. 



Nancy Agree, of Jlissouri, some years since claimed the $10,000 premium 

 Tered by the legislature of that State for a cure for hog cholera. Her spe- 

 nds as follows: " Take inside bark of the wild cherry tree and boil it down 

 ith water so as to make a strong solution, and give it to the hogs to drink, 

 eluding them from water. It has proven a perfect cure, even in the last 

 iges of the disease. I also recommend an admixture of the root of the 

 .11 nettle." 



A correspondent of the Journal of AgricuUnre recommends a half tea- 

 jonfiil of carbolic acid in a gill of milk. This remedy, he states, has been 

 .ccessful in every case and not only cures but stops the spread of the dia- 

 ise. It is administered from the mouth of a long-necked bottle. 



The Pig a^ a Plo^nuan. — Farmers everywhere, says the American 



A'p-icu'turisf, are influenced by the construction of railroads and other means 



f quick transportation, but none of them more so than those who grow meat 



- a branch of their farm operations. The pork-raisers in the older States 



■me in competition with the swine products of the prairie States, where 



rhe pig is a condenser of the com crop, and among the most economical 



methods of sending that cereal to market — yet even with cheap freights, it 



will not do for Eastern farmers to abandon the sty, and look to the West for 



their salt pork and hams. There are economies to be practiced in swine 



raising that vnH make the Eastern farmer successful in his competition with 



the West. He has the protection of freights over long distances which can 



"«ver be very much reduced. The home market will always be remtmera- 



e, so long as pork products are in demand. His lands need manure, and 



lat which is made in the sty and under cover, is among the best of the home 



made fertilizers. Herding swine upon pasture, or old meadow, that needs 



breaking up, is not very much practiced, but is one of the best methods of 



