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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



'Oct. 



bcciimc convulsed ui[h sevcio jerking and trem- 

 bling, witli a mourning noise. At 2 o'clock, p. m., 

 ■v\-e separated him from the rest; 5, p. m., v.-e h;id 

 f;;ur dead and four sick ; Eo:nc of the sick kept a 

 continviid twitching of the no;iC. Next morning 

 h;id ten dead .and three sicli — turned all the vrell 

 ones out cf t]ic house and ?iur,ll yard, for tlie dis- 

 cjLse \vas in both ; turned them into a woods pas- 

 ture ; next morning found one new case in the pas- 

 ture, fourteen cases in ail, one of which is living 

 and er.tsprett}- well, but secnis to be wrong about 

 the liead. T'lie t'.vo la^^t that died lived about sixty 

 hours after they wi.'re attacked. Some at death 

 emitted blood at the nose. On 2>ost mortem cx- 

 r.ininrLtion there v.-as nothing to attract my atten- 

 tion in the intestines or body of the hog, but found 

 Lijud settled on the bruiu, und from the brain to 

 the nose tbrou,"di all the parts wa? fdhui witli dark 

 blood. 



niSTOASE. 



Congestion of tlie brain. No. of eases — fourteen 

 giek, thirteen died. 



T!;eatment. 



The hogs died so rapidly tlin.t I did nothing for 

 1 hem, except liirce, the tivo first, and the last at- 

 tacked. I bled them under the eyes. One bled 

 freely and recovered, the otliers did not bleed 

 much, and lingered sixty liours and died. The 

 luigs in the large yard did not get sick. The 'lOgs 

 in all the yards and [icns had been fed on ground 

 corn soaked in wa^c-r twe:^ty four hours before 

 feeditig. Tv.-o days after I bad ren)oved the sick 

 and dead hogs, I r(.-turned the hogs to the pens 

 again, and they appear to be doing well. 



PROBABLE CACSE. 



The d:<y before the appearance c.'f the disease, 

 I put more salt in the troughs thiin they ate at tliat 

 thne, and v.-hen they were fed at night, th-ey had 

 to eat more .=alt to get tlie food. The next morn- 

 ing there was food in the trouglis. I tliought they 

 acted tliirsty, I gave tliv:-n; w,\trr, and ir. .si:: hours 

 t.iie disease made it.s appearance. 



Now if you think these few Idiits em; be of any 

 i;se to your readers let them have thoni for what 



they are worth. 



M. GuEKX^rA-X. 

 TisKii-WA, III., Sept. 12, I860. 



— It is eertiunly a misnomer to call this disease 

 ■ tlie hoir cholera. Our readers will thank Dr. 

 (ireenman, for his plan of treatment and sugges- 

 tion?, lu the next nun:lvjr we hope to have some 

 ::iore tangible information in regard to this dis- 

 ease. Ed. 



'•In tlio morning sow th.y seed and in the evening 

 v.itlihold not thv hand.'^ 



Weed's Tree Protector. 



To the Editor of the Illinois Farmer : 



The August number of the Farmer contains the 

 following recommendation, " over the left," of my 

 tree protector ; " Jamee Weed, of Muscatine, 

 Iowa, has invented a shelter for the peach and oth- 

 er fruit trees. We have exauiined the plan care- 

 fully, but fail to see any particular advantage in 

 its use. It is too expensive an invention in its re- 

 sults — better use a fruit house at once, and grow 

 the trees in tubs." 



This is right ; we court criticism, as our inven- 

 tion must stand en its merits. It is not of the "big 

 v.-iIlow" species. 



Will you please give us your ideal 01 a "fruit 

 house," in general terms, with an estimate of cost, 

 routine of management, and probable results with 

 trees in tubs '? This wid embrace precisely the da- 

 ta v.ith which -no wish to place our " shelter for 

 the peach trees" in direct comparisou. 



The big v.-illow and timber shelter to the north 

 \v,\d west of orchards, so much talked about, and 

 so strongly recommended of late by northwestern 

 pomologists 1.1, in our estimation, like a nev,- coat 

 with a hole in it — good enough as far as it goes- 

 and much better than none, but so far as answer- 

 inf^ a t^entleman'sidea of a coat, the hole spoils it. 

 The influence of wind-breaks is not to bo ignored, 

 Dor will it do to extol it as all-importa!it. Said 

 Mr. Stevens of Winona, "Talk about protecting 

 the peach up here in Minnesota, where the ther- 

 mometer goes down to 40 ~ below zero, and v,-ouId 

 go lower if it was long enough !" Yi'e say, talk to 

 him about wind-breaks and timber shelter ; it ia 

 temperature he recognizes and appreciates as the 

 important climatic clement of dcsLruetlon. 



A lady, on a winter's mornirg finds her gerani- 

 um stiff with frost — the thermometer a little be- 

 low 32 ' . Slie immediately immers 

 cold water, and they are taken out as fresh as ever. 

 Agai'i they arc found frozen, the mercury having 

 ndlen to 20 ° , again they are immersed in water, 

 but when taken out they instantly droop to the. 

 ground. It v.;;3 too cold. . , 



The fruit-buds of the more hardy seedling varie- 

 ties of the peach will endure 12 ^ below zero, 

 while the finer budded varieties are killed by this 

 temperature, and sometimes injured by eight ; and 

 20 ^ to 25 ® sweeps all indiscriminately, with 

 many kinds of the cherry and plum. Instances 

 may be cited to prove exceptions to this rule, but 

 we are not therefore at liberty to disregard the 

 facts and d;ites upon which the rule is founded. 

 One thing is quite certain if the temperature does 

 not fall below zero, we need no wind-breaks or 

 shelter to prevent fruit-buds being killed in winter. 



