The Iola register., 1901-01-04
A Blackleg Remedy.

Mr.. j. N. Thompson hands the
REGISTER the following article
describing cure for blackleg in
cattle which he says he has used with
success:
Take the bark from the cider which
grows on the creek side or on low
ground. In summer it grows white
flowers and in the fall black, red
berries. Take knife and cut small
cash in the small, soft, spungy dewlap
one inch from the outer side, or the
lower side as it hangs down, large
enough to put the forefnger down in
side close to the skin threeinches deep.
Now take elder bark the size of the
first joint of the forefnger, make into
a solid ball like marble and put it
into the bottom of the hole in the
dewlap. The soft, spungy dewlap is
about half way between the brisket
and the jaw bone, lower down nearer
the heart is more severe.
81 have tried this for twenty years
and longer and never knew it to fail.
When there were as high as twenty
five dead ones laying around never
was there vaccinated one that died
after twentyfour hours from the time.
Anyone can do this little matter.
am a farmer and il is for the benefit
of the farmers. Have had fifty years
experience and every farmer who
raises calf ought to know this reme-
dy. Scrape the bark of the elder
close to the wood or stick and this will
answer in corn stalk diseases and is
good in all murrain diseases, and has
been the practionist treatment for $50
years in England. | once sent this
receipt years ago to n live stock paper
in the east and they never published
it, but gave it to few veterinary
surgeons. If any farmer needs any
better information he can have it by
asking.
81 raise sixty to eighty calves every
year, Red Durhams, some full bloods
and some grades. keep $50 hogs,
have 525 now. They used to have
cholera every year and an English
veterinary, by the name of Ellis,
wanted me to give him one dollar per
head for all that got well. Thirty or
forty had died already and he would
pay for every hog that died that ate
his medicine and he would come home
with me and test it. We were friends
and told him | did not want HIM to
pay for my hogs and would not do it.
He got me the medicine and then wrote
out the receipt for me, saying / should
not give it away. Mr.. Ellis died three
or four years ago and have given il
to everyone in need since, as think
am at liberty. Four ounces poke
root pulverized, -four ounces blood
root, 8 cents per ounce, four pounds
sulphur, four pounds common salt
four pounds 20 cents. Mix all to-
gether and give just one teaspoonfu
to each hog every week in shorts OF
good slop. Say twenty hogs, twenty
teaspoonsful; one hundred hogs, one
hundred teaspoonsful; for two hun
dred take two barrels, one hundred
pounds shorts, fifty pounds eacl
barrel. Fill with water plenty o
troughs, as they will crowd on eaci
other to get it or some will get more
than others, but it won't hurt any o
them. A good feed of oats once I
week is good thing for hogs. Goa
or ashes and lump of rock salt viii
assist them to thrive, as hogs neeC
some change. / have not lost an!
hogs that got the medicine for eight o
ten years. If this don't answer TO
brother farmer as it has every time TO
, me, and if some other farmer know
: something good We would like to kno'
, and learn from him. Very respect
, fully yours, WIN. LEWIS,
, Home, Kan.