Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

TREATING HOG CHoLERA.-Dr. Thos.
Pollard, Commissioner Of Agricultural
of Virginia, has printed a pamphlet on the
treatment Of diseases of the hogs. It con-
tains many valuable recipes for the treat
ment of hog cholera, and WE copy the
followin /:
One p, Elished IN the sPrarie Farmer"
is strongly endorsed by a correspondent
who says he stopped it in his herd twice
by the remedy, which is as follows: Sui
phur two pounds; copperas, two pounds;
madden. two pounds; black antimony, one
quarter pound ~saltpetre. o~ne-quarter
pound; arsenic, two ounces. This guam
tity is sufficient for one hundred hogs, and
is mixed with slops enough for a few doses
all around a pint to each hog. "Each
time I tried this" says the correspondent,
II had about fifty hogs, and not n died
that was able to walk to the trough and
had enough life left to drink" It is also
endorsed by another correspondent, who
says it saved a lot of one hundred shoats.
from which he had just lost fifteen before
he commenced using the remedy. (Co-
burn).
A preventive remedy, as recommended
by Prof. Turner, in the "Prairie Farmer
is as follows: n peck of wood ashes,
four pounds salt, one pound black antimo-
ny, one pound copperas, one quarter
pound saltpetre. Pound and mix thor
oughly, moisten enough to prevent waste,
put in a trough in a dry place where the
hogs can eat at all times just as much as
they please. The venerable Prof. Turner
saws of this preventive: 81 know of no one
who has had any ''hog cholera of account
from that day 1882, who has persistently
made use Of it in advance of the appear
ance of disease"
Milton Briggs, author of the western
Farmer and Stock-Grower, - and VIZ know
him as a successful stock-grower of cattle
and hogs on a large scale, strongly recon-
mends the following as a preventive
"Five tons of what is called slack coal,
four or five bushels Of lime, three or four
barrels of wood ashes, and one barrel of
salt, mixed, is sufficient to feed 100 hogs
for four months. This will serve to give
the proportion for small number of hogs.)
Place this in a box or bin, where the hogs
have free access to it: All the hogs hav-
ing free access to this will keep from dis
ease, " if exposed to hogs having
cholera" (Coburn.) He says he has
purchased hogs ia the first stages with
cholera, and turned them in with well
hogs, and fed on this, the sick gotwell and
no new cases occurred.
Another preventive strongly recommen-
ded by Mr.. A, c. Moore, an eminent Hi
nois breeder, Is: zone bushel of charcoal
lsmall pieces,) three bushels of wood ashes,
half bushel of Stacked lime, one-fourth
bushel of salt, two pounds of Spanish
brown. five pounds of sulphur, one-fourth
pound of saltpeter, one-fourth pound of
copperas; pulverize the last two thorough
ly, mix all well together in a barrel or box.
and keep in an open trough, where the
hogs can have access to it, and keep well
moistened with good swill or milk. This
mixture contains chemical elements which
are wanting in every hog predisposed to
disease. The hogs that look worst, and
with whom there seems something the
NATTER will always eat most of it.n (Co-
burn.)