The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-05-11

shall continue to DC EGWcfs Oh Noou dh.
drawers of water, toa pampcrcd monled
,ristocracy, instead Of being a people
proud OF onr institutions, our fields, our
Iloclis, our liresidcs, and our affairs, and
nobIy aspiring 10 an imperishable name
anlung tic nations of the earth.
ARAToR.
DRY HUSilING COUGH IN PIGS.
\ correspondents in Charleston, apprl-
scs US of the loss of several Berkshire pigs
bv dry hHSkjH5' couyh, which does not
affect their appelile-he seems to think
from the circumstance Of several OF his
other pigs having taken the cough also
that it is contagious. Iavinglost several
with the same disease, we were under
the same impressions; but it has been sug-
gcstcd to us, that from the circumstance
Of the hogs running in the yard, and pro-
baby exposed to the alterations of the
weather, that the disease takes its origin
in heavy cold, the which settling upon
their lungs, has given them the dry husk-
inc cough which he describes. lie says
that he has "tricd sui lphur, charcoal, ley
and salt with theil. food" Now this, it is
also intimatcd by a friend who has some
knowledge of such matters, would have
been all very well, provided the pigs have
had the advantage of a dry acarm sty.
covered from the weather, but while run
nng in the yard, and of course, sub Iect
to the influence of the changes of wca-
thcr, the administration of sulphur was
any thing else than advisable, as from its
known tendency to open the pores, it sclv-
ed but to increase the susceptibility OF the
animals to the effects of the cold, alrea-
DIV contracted, and to retard rather than
effect its cure.
On the first discovery Of the cough, he
should have renewed them from the yard
to dry, warm pen, provided with an
apartment to sleep OH, elevated few in
ches above the floor, SO as to secure them
against the dampncss incident to feeding.
Their sleeping bunk should have been pro-
vidcd, every few days, with fresh straw,
hay, shavings or leaves. Added to this,
their food should havebccnof cooling ma
turc, and after bleeding them from the
tail or ears, he should have given them
decoction of garlic boiled in milk, to be
mixed with, say to each, half a gill Of
faxsccd, swcctcncd with molasses or ho-
ney, in. their food, (Which should be soft
warm mash, made Of some kind Of mcaD
hrce times a day, allowing them also
/ good supply of fresh water.
This is deemed the. proper course Of
Treatment. that ought to have b0oH pursu-
ed, and we will repeat what we have
said in the previous part of this article,
that dry pen and comfortable clean
lodging are indispensably necessary to a
log when confined. There is perhaps,
no animal that more delights in roofing in
he mud, when at large, neithar is there
one which instinctively shows greater
lcsire to seek shelter from the inclemency
IF the weather, Or 10 rcpose where they
will be protected from its influence thro'
he night. His instinct, should, then,
each US, when ourintcrcst induced us to
,urtail him of his liberty, to do that for
lim which he would DO for himself, haI
we not deprived him Of the power of ac-
ion.-Ameyican Farmer. 4
SolLs.-Thc most productive soil is
hat whichis SO constituted rs to maintain
uch degree of moisture in very dry,
md in very wet seasons, only to give a
healthy supply of it to the plants. Such
| soil gives to the plants the means Of fix
ng thcirroots sufficiently deepto support
hem during the period of their growth,
ind allows them to ramily in every direc- !
ion in search of nourishmcnt; where they !
nay easily abstract the clements of vcgc-
able life, without being injured by a re-
lundant or deficient supply OF moisture I
Turing any period Of their growth. A
constant supply Of air and water is neccs-
AIRY to keep the soil permanent y produc-
;yc: when tho soil is made and kept fria-
Die, it will have tho power of absorbing,
'ctaisng aud dcconposing the water, the
alr, and the organic matter which may be
n It's compositions. by inscnsblc fermcn-
alton, and give up constant supply of
he results Of this decomposition for the
rro\y.h Of Dl,ofc nithar ,t cool tinn