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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



hogs, if the disease has not been amongst 

 them, might prevent its introduction by 

 having a quarantine pen, in which the 

 stock hogs should be kept fourteen or fif- 

 teen days ; by that time it would be known 

 whether they were diseased. Mr. Watts, 

 who is feeding a large number of hogs at 

 Patriot, informs me that he filled his pens 

 in June, and has bought no hogs since ; 

 this was before the disease made its ap- 

 pearance, and he has not lost a hog with 

 this disease. The introduction of this 

 disease into the pens at Aurora, can be 

 traced, most clearly, to a lot of hogs 

 brought from Laughery, in Ripley county. 

 These hogs had the disease which had 

 spread to hogs on adjoining farms before 

 they were brought to Aurora, and when 

 brought to the pens some of these hogs 

 died the next day, and they continued 

 sick, and some died daily, until the disease 

 was communicated from pen to pen. 



To destroy the infection in a pen, it 

 should be well washed with a strong solu- 

 tion of sulphate of iron, nitrate of lead, or 

 sprinkled w^ith chloride of lime. Hogs 

 that have this disease should be fed upon 

 slop. The average number of hogs that 

 die in the pens, and are fed upon slop, is 

 from 33 to 55 per cent. ; the average num- 

 ber fed upon corn, that die, is from 60 to 

 75 per cent. The mucous membrane of 

 the stomach, as we have mentioned, is 

 nearly always inflamed, and the partially 

 masticated corn, as ] have found in the 

 stomach, would be much more likely to 

 increase the inflammation than the slop. 



Those who wish to try the medicine, 

 might find laudanum and linseed oil bene- 

 ficial, when there is diarrhoea or dysen- 

 tery. Some of our farmers speak highly 

 of a solution of soap, in which sulphur is 

 mixed. 



When the lungs are diseased, bleeding 

 will probably be beneficial. 



Mr. Rann, residing near Laughery, in 

 Ripley county, informs me that he lost a 

 large number of hogs with this disease 

 last fall. He drove the remainder of his 

 stock to Laughery creek, made them swim 

 about in the water, fed them in the w r ater, 

 and that, after resorting to this treatment, 

 the sick hogs rapidly recovered, and he 

 lost no more. 



We consider this disease has not its 

 exact representation amongst the diseases 

 to which the human system is subject, and 



consequently we know of no appropriate 

 name to call it. From the inflammation 

 of the lymphatic glands ; the formation of 

 sores, like carbuncles, and its contagious 

 character, it in some respects resembles 

 the plague, and I know of no better name 

 to call it than the plague amongst the 

 hogs. George Sutton. 



Aurora, Indiana. 



The Wool-Clip of 1857. 



Notwithstanding the reduction of the tariff 

 on coarse wools, which is now taking effect, 

 the prevalent opinion among the commer- 

 cial circles appears to be that the range of 

 prices for fine and fair staple wool will not fall 

 from the prices of 1856. We trust this will 

 be so, though we are not sufficiently conver- 

 sant of the cause, nor of the course which the 

 trade is taking, to judge for ourselves. Wool- 

 len manufactures have been depressed, and 

 much apparent relief has been felt, or antici- 

 pated, in the free opening of all markets,, and 

 the benefits of free competition in the purchase 

 of all but the finest wools. This feeling will 

 doubtless spur their activity and induce them 

 to enter more largely into the manufacture of 

 fine broadcloths, and thus become heavier pur- 

 chasers of native wools. We append a letter 

 upon the subject from one of the largest New 

 England manufacturers : 



Boston, May 27, 1857. 



" Gentlemen: — Your favor of the 16th duly 

 came to hand, and I beg briefly to reply to 

 your questions. The business of manufactur- 

 ing wool had proved so disastrous under the 

 tariff of 1846, that not only sheep husbandry 

 in this country had declined, but the importa- 

 tion of raw wool from an average of 22,000,000 

 pounds for many years had fallen to 14,000,000 

 pounds a year. 



" The tariff act of this year gives to the 

 American manufacturer the market for supply- 

 ing all the fabrics made of wool except fine 

 broadcloths, consequently a steady market for 

 the wools of our country, and an improving 

 and increasing sheep husbandry. It will re- 

 quire at least one year for the manufacturers 

 to look about and regain the confidence of 

 capitalists and men of substance to enable 

 them to act. Few persons are aware how sadly 

 depressed this important branch of industry is 

 in this country, and how Little confidence pre- 

 vails as to our ability to compete with the 

 cheap laborers and skill of Europeans. I have 

 no doubt that within five years the duty on 

 wool of all kinds will be abrogated at the re- 

 quest of the mass of the wool-growers in this 

 country. Fine German wools are essential in 

 the manufacture of fine broadcloths ; the duty 



