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feed 100 head of hogs about four months. All hogs having access to 

 this feed will keep free from disease, even if exposed to hogs having 

 the cholera. I have purchased hogs that were diseased, having cholera 

 in its first stages, and turned in with well hogs where there were 

 large numbers running together. All symptoms of disease would 

 soon disappear under this mode of treatment. The cholera hogs 

 would soon begin to cast off their mange or scales from the skin, and. 

 assume a healthy appearance. A composition of carbonate of soda, 

 sulphur, sulphate of iron (copperas), and carbolic acid will arrest 

 the spread of cholera in its worst stages." 



Fig. 1266.— Black Essex Pig. 



Common smart-weed has been highly praised as a preventive 

 remedy. Messrs. p.. Kimberly & Sons, of Illinois, the successful 

 breeders of Chester Whites, speak in strong terms of its efficiency : — 



" 'Common smart-weed tea', has prevented, and we believe will 

 prevent, if used judiciously and in season, not only cholera, but the 

 many diseases known by that name. In its green state we pound the 

 smartrweed in an iron kettle, press out the juice and mix it, in small 

 quantities, with good swill. When we discover want of appetite in 

 a hog, (this is the first symptom in nearly all diseases of swine,) we 

 feed them enough of this to make them cough and sneeze greatly, 

 and it has never failed, with us, to bring them around all right. We 



