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„ of milk or slop; mix well by stirring; pour into a trough sufficiently long for all them 
hogs to get to readily; then let them go to it all at once. It will be better where thereP 
Nf is a large lot of hogs to bring them to the trough in detachments of not more tkai§ 
twenty, This course, if persevered in for a week, when there are any indications of 11 
the disease, it is believed, will arrest it.. ^ 
The curative treatment is very similar—carbolic acid in the same amount three timers 
per day, adding to- each dose a tablespoonful of sulphite of soda ; if the hog is too sick{S 
-A*-*., a. -" its back, and pour the medicine into its mouth; in this caser 
> eat, catch it, turft.it c 
a half pint of milk % good vehicle in which to administer the medicine. 
The Spencer Re^rter makes the following statement 
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Hog cholera has preHtiled, and still prevails. Its presence is confined to no partic-TJ 
district or locality, but is spreading in its visitations. -When i# becomes present?! 
l farm i* generally takes off all the young pigs, and from dne-fourth to three-fourthsm 
ot the rest of the swine, leaving the surviving in an unthrifty state. Within the lastg 
fifteen years two-thirds of the farms have been visited with r it, and some farms more 
than once. The effect has been to discourage the raising and feeding of hogs, which 
was a specialty. . ' “ ° J 
In Anderson, Kentucky, the loss ^estimated at 500 head; in Hardin, 
33 per cent., and the disease still spreading; in Bourbon, $5,000; in 
Whiteley, 50 per cent.; very heavy in Clarke, while in Christian the loss 
is placed at 25 per cent., 20 per cent, in Kenton and Laurel, about the 
same in Graves, and l$ss in Shelby, Hopkins, Scott, and Warren. 
In Clarke, Missouri, the loss is estimated at 50 per cent., “ confined 
principally to pigs up to six months old f “ many deaths from insuffi¬ 
cient shelter, but all attributed to cholera,” is written from Bates; loss 
1,000 head in Holt, 375 in Bates, 200 in Pettis, and small percentages 
pLlQ£S.Ji^^ Be Kalb, ]\Rmtgpmeryy Marion, 
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