Year: 1867

mers we extract from the Monthly
Report of the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington, the fol-
lowing upon the subject of prevent
ing and curing this distressing
malady among hogs:


GA farmer was feeding in the fall
of 1865, upwards of one hundred
hogs in one lot, when the cholera,
or what was considered cholera,
made its appearance among them,
and several had died and
others were sick, when he was
told that stone coal was a remedy.
He Immediately procured a load
and threw it to his hogs, when, to
to his surprise, it disappeared; there
were no more new cases, and those
already affected recovered, and
left my friend in the firm belief
that stone coal was a certain rene
dy. In the fall of 1866 the same
man purchased one hundred head
of hogs, then in good condition
and apparently healthy, and took
them to his farm to fatten; the
next day after reaching home
with them they began dying, when
he Immediately began feeding stone
coal as before, but they continued
to die till sixty outof one hundred
were dead. The substances most
generally used as cures or preven-
tives are sulphur, black antimony,
rosin, turpentine, crude petroleum,
stone coal, charcoal, ashes, salt,
&c. I fatted a lot of hogs last fall,
to which l fed the ashes from a
neighboring steam mill, where a
mixed fuel of wood and coal was
used, among which there was a
considerable amount of both stone
coal and charcoal, which dropped
through the CRATES without being
consumed. 1 am satisfied that
it was good for the hogs, and when
they had none for few days they
would eagerly follow the wagon
for it when it was driven into the
lot where thew were being fed;
still I would by no means recon-
mend it as q certain preventive of
cholera"


Hancock county, Illinois,
"Hog cholera has prevailed to a
considerable extent in the last five
or six years, and the yearly loss
has been at least twenty-five per
cent. In regard to remedies, all
the usual ones recommended have
been tried, but none of them prov
ed certain as preventives or cures.
Mr.. William Wack, an observant
and wealthy farmer living in this
county, has discovered a cure
which he considers certain. Last
spring his herd were attacked with
the disease, and Notwithstanding
he used all the usual remedies, he
lost many. A valuable SOW, which
he was anxious to save, was attack
ed with the disease in its most vir-
ulent form, and for the purpose OF
giving her better attention, he put
her in a lot by herself; but the
disease progressed until she was
in the last stage A cow in a
adjoining lot had just dropped her
calf, and, as her udder was very
full, Mr.. Wack drew the milk in-
to bucket, and gave it to the
sick sow. Three or four hours
afterwards he was astonished to
find the animal eating food, and
apparently free from the. disease.
He could conceive Of no other
cause for this sudden change than
the fresh milk she had drank
Having ten pigs III a pen having
the.disease in different stages, he
gave them to drink freely of fresh
milk, and all of them rapid
ly recovered. He then selected
all that were affected with the dis
ease, and treated them in the
same way, and the result was the
same; and not hog has been lost
by the disease on the plantation
since that time. Mr.. Wack is sat
isfied from these tests, and from
Others since made, that sweet milk
is not only a preventive but a GER
tain cure for hog cholera"


Rock Island county, Hlinois.-"My
hogs were dying at the rate OF
from five to eight per day with
cholera, when l gave to every
twelve one quart of common lye
mixed in ten quarts OF milk, and