Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-05
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
The Treatment Of

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Worth county Times:
Upon the farmer depends nearly all
the prosperity of every avenue of trade
and business, and to him and his in
terest wish to devote my time in bring
ing before him a few practical hints by
which he may be benefited. feel it a
duty in his behalf and in view Of the
losses occurring year after year, which
are constantly taking away surplus CAPT
tai necessary to his prosperity. There
Is no one who is more DESTROYS or would
feel more grateful for any hints that
might lead to a paper husbandry OF his
interests than the farmer. | wish to talk
in plain, comprehensive language that
all may understand and thereby be
benefited by what little information
these few lines may contain.
In the first place the majority of
farmers who raise hogs for the market
are too anxious to bring them into a
condition to realize from them. This is
apt to bring them into the error of over
feeding, Corn being of q heating nature
ohStructs the natural secretions of the
membranes of the stomach, which is
nothing more nor less than indigestion
and constipation, The food isnotd igested,
auditb becomes Compactedint the upperpor-
ton of the small intestines in balls and as
they sufficiently increase by constant sup
ply of the same food the mucous mem.
brane becomes liberated, and these balls
become covered with foul, Shiny mucus;
and a constant supply of the offending
substance increases the irritation and in.
hammatiOn until it obstruCts circula-
ton, and the hog stops eating. At this
stage the farmer thinks his hogs are not
doing well, and he must do something
for them or they will have the cholera,
and accordingly he gives them a little
oopperas, ashes and salt, anu also throws
more corn to them. The stimulant pro-
duced by the medicine caused the hog to
keep on eating, which still further in.
creases the difficulty until the obstruc.
ton becomes so great that nothing passes
the bowels, the blood rushes to the brain,
he has spasms, apoplexy, and bleeding at
the nose, and blood running from his
mouth the liver and lungs are found
filed with coagulated blood. All cases
are not so severe az represented here, but
all bear marks Of the truthfllness of my
assertion. Keep your hogs hungry, is a
good criterion to 20 by, Why is il that
men who are dealing in the more valu.
able breeds of hogs do not lose them in
this manner? Simply because they give
them frequent changes of food, such as
milk, bran mash, oats, meal. etc. This
keeps the digestion in good condition.
1t is not the amount a hog eats that
makes him fat, but the amount the stom.
ach Is able to digest and is taken up by
the absorbent vessels and assimilated.
Without healthy digestion a hog will
grow poor. while the ground may be coy.
cred with food. Notice the poor man who
has a pig or two, with no grain to iced
his pig depends upon the supply of slop
from the kitchen it is constantly hun.
cry and squealing, and yet fat; what
food 1t gets is properly digested and gives
1t strength, yigor and health.
If you will continue to feed your hogs
corn, watch them closely, and when you
see their droppings are in balls of n dark
brown color, stop giving them ncorn.
ScaId oats with weak lye water and iced
until you discover a change in the char.
acter of their eXcrements. Oats furnish
as much nOurishment az corn, and the
%roughnes9 of the grain affords quite a
stimulus to the membranes of the stom-
ach they are easy of digestion and of a
laxative nature, which is very essential
to hogs fed on corn. The n%ourishing
properties of oats cannot be overesti.
mated. The cheapness of corn has been
the cause of the farmers losing half of
the hogs that have died within the last
five years, by Withholding all other kinds
OF food and feeding corn alone. substitu,
ting medicine for a change of food.
The symptoms Of cholera are entirely
different from all other diseases the hog
mopes around there is a slight loose,
ness of the discharges before the actual
condition of the disease sets in. The
second stage is marked by vomiting and
purging. A thin, colorless fluid is dis.
charged from the bowels; breathing hur.
ried great thirst the secretion of urine
is stopped. This colorless fluid dis
charged from the bowels is the serum or
watery portion Of the blood, which oozes
through the sides of the blood vessels
and runs OF rapidly, leaving the Grass.
ment or red solid part of the blood, stran.
ded upon the inner surface of the arter.
les and veins when 50 much of this is
discharged that the blood cannot circu-
late freely, death ensues.
To cure this disease give the hog NV
preparation for cholera sufficient to oper
ate two or three times, which will re-
move all the offending substance which
may be lodged in the bowels, cleanse the
stomach, strengthen il and invigorate the
membranes, prevent Indigestion and keep
of disease. 1t will kill worms. which
are sure to predispose the hog to the
complaint. 1t will destroy the trichina
in the muscles and remove all danger
OF that terrible disease, caused by them
inthe human muscles, which has recently
made its appearance again in Buffalo,
New York.