J. A. MC CRANK. 
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ventilated. Division i was fed on good food, divisions 2 and 3 
were fed on the swill as gathered. I wanted to save those in 
division 1 and to prove the food to be at fault. Results : Of 41 
in division 1, 4 died, 3 remained of 11 in division 2, one 
scrawny skeleton survived 9 in division 3. 
We congratulated ourselves with those results, for Mr. A. 
saved very few hogs from the raids of this disease in past years. 
The next year, 1892, about the same time of the year, October 
and November months, the disease renewed its raids. This 
time we did not meet with such success, for very few hogs were 
saved. We visited the places the swill was gathered from and 
made a request that no soaps should be allowed in washing 
dishes. The result here was gratifying, for our hogs seemed to 
improve for a time, but we soon learned that the help about 
those houses bought soaps with their own wages, and our hogs 
again began to drop away. The third year we had hogs and 
cattle change sheds, reduced the numbers, boiled the swill. 
Our losses became gradually less yearly. Last year we lost 
none on that farm. We cannot speak for this year yet, although 
some forty hogs are feeding there at present. 
In 1897, the Hotel Champlain Company, thinking that money 
was wasted, because the refuse from the dining rooms and 
kitchen was carried out and dumped into the lake and else¬ 
where when the neighboring piggeries did not want it, bought 
100 hogs ; a large field was set aside for them, then this refuse 
or garbage consisting of, as you all know, was brought to the 
fields in loads and dumped. The weather was hot during the 
summer months, and this garbage spoiled and very soon became 
unfit for even a hog to eat. Sickness broke out in the herd, 
death after death occurred, I was called in, I made a few post¬ 
mortems. I gave my experience as to cause and probable re¬ 
sults. Of course I suspected soaps in dishwashings and impure 
foods. The caretaker, manager and myself visited the dish¬ 
washing corps to ask that soaps should not be used. We were 
met by a storm of opposition so violent that I vacated my posi¬ 
tion of advantage and left the building, the others escaped 
