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because I have always kept salt lying by my hogs just the same 

 as my cattle. Now, I claim that a hog in his original state is 

 one of the most cleanly animals we have, and we should keep 

 our hogs in as good and cleanly a condition as we can, and will 

 thereby save them from disease to a great extent. If it gets in 

 among your herd, my experience is, that you have got it until 

 you clear them from your yard. You cannot get rid of it, with- 

 out the germ, the bacteria is destroyed, and that has been known 

 to lie in the ground from six weeks to one year." 



Mr. Bugher: "The gentleman says he has tried salt to 

 prevent hog cholera and he considers it a failure. Now, I 

 have had some experience myself in that line. The cholera 

 broke out among my hogs and I went up to look at them and 

 I said to my boys, " these hogs havn't had salt enough." "Well," 

 my boys said, " there's plenty of it lying around." " Yes," 

 said I, " but it is not where I want it. I have no use for it in 

 the trough, I want it in the hog." And I salted the skim-milk 

 thoroughly and gave it to all of them, including some that could 

 not open their mouth. I got them to the trough where the 

 milk was with plenty of salt and ashes in it, and filled them up 

 and I didn't lose another hog. Hogs should have salt every 

 day." 



Mr. Little: "I have been feeding hogs about ten years, and 

 whilst my neighbors all about me have lost hogs by the cholera 

 I never yet have lost one. I believe milk is a sure cure or pre- 

 ventive for hog cholera, and this matter of coal slack I believe 

 is a grand thing, also the salt. My father has been in this 

 country about forty-five years and he never has lost hogs by 

 cholera, and he never allowed himself to be out of coal slack or 

 salt. I had a very nice bunch of shoats a few years ago, some- 

 thing over thirty of them. I got careless about feeding slack 

 and they took to coughing. I never heard hogs cough so in 

 my life, they just simply roared, it seemed as if they all had the 

 croup and I was alarmed about it. I went out and gave them 

 a few shovels full of slack; threw it in their yard. In twenty- 

 four hours there was not a hog in that lot coughing, — not one. 



