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turpentine is useful, but must be accompanied by oil if the 

 bowels are constipated. If there is diarrhea, alkalies and 

 mandrake root, twenty grains to a grown hog, or ten to 

 twenty grains of calomel to act on the liver. As the 

 character and symptoms of the disease change, the treat- 

 ment must be adapted to the changed condition of the 

 patient. The farmer should not, however, depend upon 

 curing the disease, but by supplying all the normal 

 conditions of health and thrift, prevent it. 



The answers to the questions on " Hog Cholera " were 

 so codflicting that but little use could be made of them. 

 The most prominent features of the answers were, that 

 those who gave good attention to their hogs, and used, at 

 regular intervals, the supposed preventives, generally 

 escaped , and that remedies were of little avail as generally 

 applied. 



CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



The people of Georgia can never be prosperous so long 

 as they send out of the State eight or ten millions of dollars, 

 annually, to purchase pork. This ten millions of dollars, 

 retained in circulation in Georgia, would be felt by every 

 class of the community, and would materially relieve the 

 prevailing financial^stringency. 



The fact that Georgia does not raise her supply of pork 

 is not due to the absence of the necessary conditions of 

 soil, climate and productions, but to the habits of thought 

 and practice of the people : the influence of cotton culture, 

 and the share and renting system of employing labor. The 

 fact that the hog has such tenacity of life in our climate, 

 that he lives, and makes some pork, in spite of neglect, 

 has induced the habit of leaving him too much to his own 

 resources. 



The hog is not only more prolific than any other of our 

 domestic animals, but renders the most prompt return for 

 the capital invested, andTurnishes fully three fourths of the 

 animal food consumed by our people. We have every 



