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sary to keep a hog's issues open ; but I will make 

 some remarks upon tliis elsewhere. The prac- 

 tice of feeding store hogs three times a day, is 

 not good ; w hereas if they are fed only morning 

 and night, they keep their appetite, eat their food 

 clean, and grow the faster. 



I shall now say a few things on the diseases of 

 hogs. 



MEASLES IN SWINE. 



Rub them all over with a stiff brush dipped in 

 cold water, then boil parsley roots and rue in 

 salt water, and give it to them to drink. 



FOR A FEVER. 



Let them blood in the tail, and give them 

 thrice a day water, wherein pepper and parsnip - 

 roots have been boiled. 



FOR THE SWINE POX. 



Take an ounce of nitre, pound it, and dis- 

 slove it in a pint of cider ; add to it half a pint 

 of sweet oil and one spoonful of honey, to be 

 given to the swine luke warm. 



FOR CATARRHS. - 



Take two ounces of coriander seed,, one of 

 ginger, three of honey, and half an ounce of tur- 

 meric, let it be powdered fine, ajid boiled in three 

 quarts of new milk, then kt the hog drink it. 



OF DRENCHES, 



It is a pTactice among people in general, when 

 their hogs are sick, to put a rope in iheir mouths 

 and h«ig them up for drenching. This is a very 

 bad practice— -for while you are pouring your 

 medicine down, the hog will squeak, and ten to 

 one the liquid goes ^own the wind pipe ^ad 



