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Jalap ten grains. 



Calomel ten grains. Mix. 



Give at one dose. Follow this by giving our 

 REMEDY NO. 21 AS DIRECTED. 

 Price 50 cents. 



CHOLERA, HOG. 



The loss to farmers from this disease is enormous ; hav- 

 ing been estimated at fifty-million in a single year. It has 

 committed fearful ravages among the swine of, particularly, 

 Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. Indeed, many farmers who, 

 until recently have been accustomed to raise large numbers 

 of these animals, are in a great measure, disinclined to in- 

 vest again in such stock, on account of the severe loss. We 

 are now prepared to furnish a remedy, that is admitted by 

 the proffession to be a sure preventive for cholera, as well 

 as, a cure in the first stages of the disease. It is a known 

 fact, that hogs in the advanced stages of cholera are in- 

 curable. Therefore a preventive is of the utmost necessity, 

 as it will save time, trouble, and many hundred dollars for 

 the farmer. The disease cholera is believed to be brought 

 onto the family of swine, through the domestication and 

 the manner in which they are cared for and fed. This dis- 

 ease occurs most frequently among hogs that are fed on 

 sour grain, sour swill, distilery slop, or from that which has 

 been eaten and passed from other animals, or by eating food 

 that has been trampled in the dung. Or in fact, any food 

 that has become sour will produce cholera in the hog. The 

 first ill effect that will be noticed from feeding sour food, is 

 constipation followed by diarrhoea. Soon the blood be- 

 comes affected, and the result is cholera. Hogs fed upon 



