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ice ball, i lb. ginger ; bottle, and give in pint doses every morn- 

 ing. Keep on green food for a few days. 



UNIVERSAL SPECIFIC. 



Many farmers, when their swine show signs of illness, feed 

 them with corn-meal, mixed with 2 oz. sulphur and the same 

 quantity of tar, charcoal, and salt, removing them to a warm, 

 dry shelter. This, of course, will not cure all diseases, but 

 "will prevent most of them assuming a violent form. 



PHYSIC. 



It is customary with many people, when medicine is to be 

 administered to swine, to put a rope in their mouths and draw 

 their heads up. This is a very injurious practice, for should 

 the hog attempt to squeal, the liquid will go down the wind- 

 pipe and choke him. The only safe and effectual manner of 

 giving medicines, is with milk or other food. 



BLEEDING. 



Most of the diseases to which swine are subject, wnll yield 

 to mild treatment ; but where the attack is violent, and nothing 

 else will avail, it will be necessary to confine the animal, and 

 bleed from an artery just above the knee, on the inside of the 

 forearm, or from the roof of the mouth. It is somewhat difficult 

 to stop the blood where the mouth is lanced, but it can usually 

 be done by partly filling the mouth with dry bran. Where 

 a vein is cut, the bleeding can be stanched by inserting a pin 

 through the vein and tying a thread around it. 



PREVENTING SNA^INE FROM ROOXING. 



Take the pig when young, and cut off the gristle on the top 

 of the snout ; apply a little tar, and it will soon heal. 



POULTRY. 



There are many ways in which poultry may be rendered 

 more valuable to the husbandman than is generally supposed. 

 The keeping of domestic fowls not only occupies much of the 

 attention, and calls forth many of the kindlier feelings of chil- 

 dren, assisting also to while away many an idle hour, but, if 

 properly attended to, they will yield a larger profit, in propor- 

 tion to the food they consume, than any other stock raised on a 

 farm. It is estimated that the value of poultry produced in 

 the United States, in 1847, was $35,000,000. 



