swine. 275 



water, and fresh earth to root. If this be not convenient 

 give them a good dry shelter, good air, pure water, fresh 

 earth, charcoal, and green food, such as grass, weeds, &c 

 A few raw roots will be good. Give the following for a 

 swelling in the throat : — Half a pint of molasses, a table 

 spoonful each of hog's lard and sulphur, and a tea- 

 spoonful of Cayenne or black pepper. Melt, and mix 

 all together, and when just cool enough, pour down the 

 throat, unless you can make him eat it in light food. 



Quincy. This is a sore throat, and the enlargement 

 of the glands of the throat, with a stiffness of the limbs. 



Remedy. See that the issues are open. Give mod- 

 erate doses of physic, say two ounces of salts, which may 

 be mixed with light food. Feed lightly, and add to the 

 food, lye of wood ashes and salt. 



Scours. Give raw tomatoes, or give powdered chalk, 

 and remedies recommended for other animals. Among 

 the most valuable is freshly burnt, powdered charcoal, 

 ff hogs will not eat it, pulverize, and mix it with their food. 



Black Teeth. Cause. Close confinement from the 

 ground. 



Symptoms. Loss of appetite, dizziness, and weakness 

 of the hind legs and hips. The teeth are black. 



Remedy. Extract the black teeth ; give sulphur ; and 

 wash the patient in butter-milk, rubbing smartly with a 

 curry-comb, cob, or stiff brush ; rub open the issues, and 

 allow the animal pure air and water, fresh earth, rot- 

 ten-wood and charcoal ; and grass, w r eeds, &c. 



Kidney Worms. This disease is indicated by weak- 

 ness about the loins. 



Remedy. Corn, soaked in lye of wood ashes, perse- 

 veringly used, has cured in many cases. 



Another. D. H. Maxwell, in the Baltimore Farmer, 

 says of the above, that it may do in recent and slight 

 affections ; but a more certain treatment is to make an 

 incision about an inch long, and on each side of the 

 backbone, over the kidneys, and after separating the 

 skin slightly from the parts beneath, insert tw r o or three 

 cloves of garlic. Take a stitch to confine the garlic. 

 First, shave off the hair. Dr. Holmes, of the Maine 

 Farmer, thinks that pieces of onion or garget root, would 

 do as well. 



