The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-08-03
you will choae him. Pun out the sid.

you will choRe him. Pub out the side
of his cheek from his teeth and thus
make a pouch, into which pour the med.
icine, and it will run into his mouth and
be swallowed, or take an.old shoe and
cut off small part of the toe, SO as to
make hole through, and put this in his
mouth. He will generally commence
to chew the shoe.-then pour the medi-
cine into the shoe and it will find its
way slowly into the mouth and he
swallowed. We have drenched hogs in
this way when we could succeed in no
other way. Keep the sick hogs dry,
warm and clean, or it is very little use
giving medicine.
DIR. I. j. Dodge, of Hamilton, ILL.,,
writes as follows to the Iowa Home
stead on the subject of hog cholera:
l deem it my duty to give to the pub
lie, free, my recipe for the cure OF
what is termed hog cholera. 1 have
used this remedy for thirty-fve years,
and raised hogs on my ranch in
Nebraska, and have never lost hog.
have experienced by placing one
well hog with lot of sick ones, and
keeping it well by the use of this rem.
edy. You will confer great favor
upon the farmers Of our Country bv
publishing this recipe in full. 1 am
now engaged in other business, and
have been for sixteen years, and am
willing to let others prosper by the
long years of experience of mine with
remedy discovered myself for the
cure of this dreaded disease.
The prescription and directions are
as follows:
Arsenic, one-half pound; cape aloes
one-half pound; blue vitriol. one-fourtb
pound; black antimony, one ounce
Grind and mix well the remedy before
using.
The following are the directions for
using:
| ]. Sick hogs in all cases to be sepa-
rated from the well ones and placed in
dry pens, with only five large hogs or
eight small ones in each pen.
g Feed nothing but dry food, but no
water, only the slop containing the
remedy, until cured.
g. When hogs refuse to eat, turn
them on their backs, and then, with a
long handled spoon, put the dry medi-
cine down their threats.
4. Dose for large hogs: One tea
spoonful three times a day for three
days; then miss one day. and repeat
amount until cured. Shoats or pigs.
one-half the amount.
Ac 80
once week will keep your hogs in a
healthy condition to take on fat. can
place one well hog in pen with 100
sick ones, and with this remedy keep
him well. Let no other stock but h sgs
have access to this remedy, as it is to
them deadly poison.
DIR. Dodge adds, that for many years
he sold his recipe for IS, and treated
hogs at the rate of 81 per head. paying
the owner 10 cents pound for all that
died after treatment begun.
Cultivator.
Wool and Sheep.
While there has at all times been
more or less strife existing between the
| breeders of wool and mutton sheep,
the man who regards the conditions
that influence. the trade in wool and
mutton can not help regarding such
differences as groundless and wholly
uncalledsfor. 1t is true that the best
mutton sheep do not grow the best
wool. and equally true that the best
wool sheep do not produce the best
mutton, but these differences are not
SO great in fact as they are imagined
| to be. 1t will be found an absolute i'm.
possibility to produce a finely finished
mutton, withoutan accompanying good
fleece, and all the advantage of rich
food as found in a well-balancedr ration,
dry and moderately .rarm quarters,
good pure water, kindness and con.
| tentment, all sc necessary to the pro-
duction of fine mutton at profit. will
be found of equal advantage to the
| fleece. There will be good color, good
texture and good weight, and the wool
buyer will quickly recognize such a
fleece DIS having been ''grain fed"
On the other hand, the wool sheep,
which many now claim to possess nc
other virtue, if properly handled, and
| slaughtered at reasonable age will
produce lamb chop or leg of mutton
good enough to meet the requirements
of the most fastidious of our lovers OF
this most delicious animal food. Farm
and Ranch.