Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-07-08
Frequent Cause of Disease in Pigs.

Frequent Cause of Disease in Pigs.
The diseases which affect these animals
generally originate from their being kept in
loathsome and uncomfortable situations, in.
haling the most infectious exhalatioDs, and
being at one time stinted with food, aud ut
another fed to extreme. Tho hog, although
wallowing in tho flthiest mire, sometimes
feeding upon the most disgusting, kind of
foed, both animal and vegetable, and often
when in a decomposed state, does not always
do so with impunity. We are convinced
that many animals of this class are annually
lost from the effects of improper food, or
from living in atmosphere surcharged
with poisonous effluvia, the product of ami
NAL or vegetable decomposition, and we
think owners of pigs often make great mis-
takes in not paying moro attention TO tho
quality of their food aud condition of their
lodgings, Decomposition substances, both
animal aud vegetable, grain that has UNDER
gone a change from long keeping or cxpo>
sure to damp, and which is loaded, perhaps,
with the sporules of poisonous fungi, brino
from the meat tub b-these and other eubstnn-
ses are often given to pigs as food, and ia
many instances have been known to cause
great losses Much that we have seen cOn>
viuces us Of the necessity of more attention
being paid to tho quality of the food of these
animals than is generally being done, and
also to the nature of their lodings, as we'll as
the air they breathe. As rule, We believe
that old and strong hogs arc not so easily
affected by improper food as young ones, and
we have sometimes known sovs TO appear in
perfect health when sucking their pigs, but
yet to have their pigs so altered in quality
from the effect of bad food as to destroy the
pigs.
DECISION OF AN ORIENTAL l. JUDoE.-Tho
Rev. Il. NJ. Scudder, d. D., who was for
many years a missionary in India, tells tho
following odd story -Four men, partners
in business, bought somo cotton bales. That
the rats might not destroy the cotton they
purchased a cat. They sereed that each of
the four should own particular leg of tho
cat and each adorned with beads and other
ornaments the leg thus apportioned to him.
The cat, by accident, injured one of Its
legs. The owner of that member wound
around it rag soaked in oil. The cat going
too near tho hearth, set this rag on FIRE, and
being in great pain rushed in among the cot
ton bales where she was accustomed to hunt
rats. The cotton took Ere and was burned
up. 1t was a total loss. Tho three other
partners brought suit to recover tho value
of the cotton against the partner who owned
this particular leg Of the cat. The judge
examined the case and decided thus Tho
led that had the oiled rag on il was hurt
the cat could not use that leg in fact, held
mp that leg, and ran with the three legs
The three unhurt legs, therefore, carried tho
FIRE to tho cotton, and alone are culpable.-
The injured leg is not to be blamed. The
three partners who owned tho three legs with
which the cat ran to the cotton will pay tho
whole value of the bales to the partner who
was the proprietor Of the injured leg"
INDIAN DEPKEDATIoNs-Th fair reader
shudders when she thinks of the settlers
wife watching, from the door of her rude
hut, tho retreating form of her husband
going out to his daily iabor-going ont per-
hsps to return not again, for before nightlaIl
a savage hand may have laid him low among
the prairie grasses. Or il may be child,
brigbt>eyed daughter, is snatched away in an
uDguarded moment, to grace the war dance.
When VIC read the heartfendiBg details OF
these savage depredations, We are apt to
blame the government for. not taking moro
strict precautions 10 insure the settlers pro-
lection. But we daily read of the depreda-
tions of that arch-fend, consumption, with
scarcely q thought of the terrible inroads il
is making in human life. Tens of thousands
of homes are annually desolated by cousuwp-
tion to one by Indian, Outrage. Like che
Indian, consumption oftenest comes steatth-
lily, and no danger is apprebeDded until the
victim suddenly fuds himself hopsIessIy en-
shared, and deaths fatal arrow ends the
scene. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, powerful alternative, or blood-puri-
fer, and tonic, has restored thousands of con-
sumptises who had tried every other remedy
recommended to them, without obtaining any
relief, and are willing to testify to its remedial
powers.
BLACKBERRY CoRDIAL.-To two quarts
of blackberry juice add pound of loaf
| sugar, one,half an ounce of nutmegs, one
half an ounce of cloves, oue-balf an ounce OF
cipnamon and one,haIf an ounce of allspics,
each of which must be we'll puITerized
Boil all together, aud skim carefully. When
cold, add pint of fourth proof brandy or
pure rectifed whiskey. This cordial has
beeo found highly beneficial in the trest-
1nent of cases of diarrboea. and Is frequently
recommended by physicians.