Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-08-16


Logan, two; Mr.. VIM. B. OFT, one; Mr.
VIM, Few one and number of other
have either lost some or have som'
sick ones on hand.
We publish number Of articles from
persons acquainted with the disease,
giving preventives or remedies which
we hope will be found to be good.
Mr.. NJ. Whorter, OF Alabama, says:
From what have seen if the disease, l
make the following deductions:
|. The worms are Matched ID the
bowels.
2. They must be destroyed before
they leave the bowels.
8. When the lung is perforated treat
ment is uuavailing.
4. Almost all cases let alone prove
fatal.
Treatment should be founded on
these principles. Recommended calo'
mel and arsenic to a number of far
mers. Many hogs just taken recovered
under this treatment.
Mr.. Wray, Of Illinois. writes:
Several farmers near me have sus-
tanned severe losses among their hogs
this wear. One of them told me that
spirits ofturpentine had been of more
benefit 10 his animals than anything he
had tried.
Mr.. Geo. Stocks, OF Illinois says, IN
speaking Of a season when he lost from
thirty to forty head and the majority OF
his ueighbors lost in the same propor'
ton. one widow woman near by lost
none, and on inquiring l found that she
kept q few ounces Of asafetlda incloseC
10 q sack and suspended IN the slop-
barrel. adopted the same preventive
and occasionally gave coal ashes, cop
peras and sulphur and for three years
lost none. Early in 1871 met with
report of a stock growers convention
held, l think, in Lexington, KY, a
which one of the delegates stated thai
he put on the market every year iron
five hundred to six hundred head o.
hogs, averaging 400 pounds in weight
and claims that be could either proven
or cure the hog cholera with the follow
ing prescription, VIZ. Four ounces o
crystallized carbolc acid dissolved Il
oue-half pint Of rain water. Dose
twenty-five drops to each hog, or ont
teaspoonful to four hogs, given in
little slop or milk.
On my place, l generally have from
forty to seventy hogs, large and small,
and l have used the above remedy fol
seven years with success. During that
time l haye lost only Que, l think, ano
l. did not have the cholera. Although
this county has lost heavily, we are
not alone, as l yesterday heard oil one
gentleman, residing near Dalton CITY,
who had lost twenty-three OF herd o
twenty-six large hogs within the pas
few days.
l have given the above receipt &c
many persons, but often on inquiry
have found that they failed to use it
Since using 1t l have had six or sever
hogs so bad that they would neither ca
nor drink, and l had 10 pour the medi'
cine down their tbroats. In every case
they recovered.
Mr.. ]. B. Turner of Illinois gives a.
the recipe which has saved his hogs
the following Whenever the cholera
is around we should keep constantly
before them, in a dry trough, as a
preventive, but not as a cure, th'
following mixture:
One peck of wood ashes, four pounds
of salt, and one pound each OF black
anumony, copperas, aud sulphur aud
| one fourth pound of saltpeter. PounC
fine aud mix thoroughly, aud set in
dry trough where the hogs can have
free access 10 it. This is as the re-
cipe was given me. If the choler
should again attack my hogs, [ woul'
now add pint OF coal-oil and a hall
pint choral in solution.
Mr.. Samuel Yarmouth Of Indiana
says: salt and hickory ashes, with
sulphur aud copperas, will be founr
good preventives.
The sick hogs shJuli be separated
from the we'll ones.
This preparation is largely used II
the West and is said to be sure cur
for hog cholera :
| lib. Nader, ID. ROsln, l 10. Sal
phur, l Id. Saltpetre. : 10. Copperas
| ! ID. Anthony, / ID. Assafetida, + IT,
| Arsenic, powdered aud mixed tose
Their. Add double this qlan.lty
strong wood and halt the q iantity
salt. Nix well and give a tablespoon
| ful at a dose,