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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
may say not at all, except in a very few cases in the southern 
counties. 
In Iowa the cholera has prevailed to such an extent that 
whole herds of fifty to a hundred hogs have been carried off 
by it within a few days. Various remedies have been tried, 
but none seems to have so far gained the confidence of the 
farmers as to be considered a cure. 
Some Iowa farmers, with whom we have conversed on the 
subject, report that they have succeeded in saving their herds, 
without the loss of a single animal, by extra care in keeping 
their bedding places clean—renewing the straw often and 
changing their location frequently—by preventing their nest¬ 
ing together in considerable numbers, and by giving them 
constant access to stone coal. 
POULTRY. 
We have no statistical sources of information as to how 
much is doing in our state in the raising of poultry ; nor is 
there reason to believe that it has any considerable amount of 
special attention. 
The Chamber of Commerce reports the receipt of 11,841 
packages of eggs by rail and water in 1870; the said packages 
being equivalent to something like 10,000 barrels. 
The prices ranged between 22 and 81 cents per dozen, du¬ 
ring the winter months, 12-J and 22 during the summer, and be¬ 
tween 12-J and 26 during the autumg. 
With more care in the selection of the best breeds and such 
further attention to matters of feeding, nesting, etc., as the 
children could give as well and better than not, if properly 
instructed, the raising of poultry and eggs for the market 
might be made a very considerable, though incidental source 
of revenue, besides supplying the farmers’ tables with whole¬ 
some luxuries of which they are quite too often denied at 
present. 
