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I thought I might as well administer to the diseased 

 animals the medicine which the magazine recommend- 

 ed, — antimony. — I began with great confidence in the 

 medicine from the high character given of its virtues in 

 several late English publications ; I dosed two or three 

 and they certainly did not die so speedily as under the 

 other regimen : in the course of a few hours five or six 

 more shewed symptoms of disease, I applied the same 

 specific; but unfortunately they went from bad to worse, 

 so that in two or three days I had only the skins left of 

 thirteen very fine hogs ; early one morning the four- 

 teenth took sick and symptoms of immediate dissolution 

 appeared on him : — I determined however to give no 

 more medicine — I merely bled him under the ear and 

 in the tail : — he bled freely — I then had him carried 

 out (for he was unable to walk) to a clover field ; he 

 was put down, but he could not stand ; I observed how- 

 ever though he was laying down that he began to bite 

 off the heads of clover (which stood very rank) voraci- 

 ously ; I left him without much hope of his recovery, 

 but still with the appearance of more favourable symp- 

 toms : — I came home to my breakfast, after which I 

 again went out to the field and found to my great sur- 

 prise the hog walking about and still feeding on the 

 clover : — in two days he was perfectly recovered : 

 that is, he fed with as much avidity as any hog at the 

 trough. Finding the favourable change in this hog, I 

 instantly turned my whole stock (about 180) on clover, 

 of which I then had a five acre field nearly ready to cut 

 the second time ; the sacrifice was well repaid, for from 

 that instant I had no more sick hogs. — Last year, about 

 the middle of August which is the time sickness has 



