160 THE FARMER'S 



a day, water wherein pepper and parsnip roots have 

 been boiled. 



For the sivine pox. 



Take an ounce of nitre, pound it, and dissolve 

 it in a pint of cider : add to it half a pint of sweet 

 oil and one spoonful of honey, to be given to th# 

 swine luke warm. 



For catarrhs. 



Take two ounces of coriander seed, one of gin- 

 ger, three of honey, and half an ounce of turmer- 

 ick, let it be j^wdered fine and boiled in three 

 quarts of new milk, then let tae hog drink it. 

 Of drenches. 



It is a practice among people in general, when 

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

 and hang them up to 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 down the windpipe and choaks 

 him. If you can give your hog his medicine in 

 milk or some other food, that he will drink, it is 

 well; if not, do not force it down in the manner 

 of drenching but give it to him in the form of a 

 glyster. This is always safe and as effectual as 

 apy method whatever. 



Issues. 



The issues in a hog, are places on the inside of 

 their legs, which are porous, like a pepper-box 

 top. Here it seems, is the most immediate outlet 

 fot the superfluous fluid of the body; when these 

 get stopped (as hogs are fond of filth and mire) 

 the hog loses his appetite, and becomes sick; then 

 to drenching and choaking as before hinted; where- 

 as, if his issues were rubbed and picked open he 

 Ifould immediately recover. 



