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sell them without delay. "A bird in hand is worth 

 two in a bush." If your hogs have cholera this year, 

 don't get discouraged and quit, but try it again, on 

 fresh ground. 



If your brood sows have passed through the cholera, 

 keep them ; they are valuable. They will never again 

 have the disease, and their pigs are not nearly so apt to 

 contract it as pigs from sows that have not had the 

 disease. Look out for streams which come down from 

 some neighbor above you. This has been found a fre- 

 quent cause of cholera outbreaks. The germs of hog 

 cholera possess great vitality, and will live in the soil, 

 in moist matter and especially in water, for months. 



If you feed corn, rake the cobs together often and 

 burn them; pour water on the coals and then put salt 

 on the charcoal thus made and you have an excellent 

 preventive for diseases, with little or no cost. Keep 

 your hogs, excepting brood sows, ready for market. 

 It may come handy some day. Strong, vigorous hogs 

 are less liable to contract the disease than hogs of less 

 strength and vigor. Then breed and feed for both these 

 things. Eternal vigilance in hog breeding, as in other 

 kinds of business, is the price of success. 



Here is a formula for the treatment of hog cholera 

 that is probably as good as any, which is not Saying 

 much. It is suggested by the Department of Agri- 

 culture : 



Sulphur i pound. 



Wood charcoal i pound. 



Sodium chloride 2 pounds. 



Sodium bicarbonate 2 pounds. 



Sodium hyposulphite 2 pounds. 



Sodium sulphate i pound. 



Antimony sulphide i pound. 



