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A Weekly Journal of the Farm,Home and (Srden.
VOL. XVII.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1882.
NO. 7.
FOR SALE.
F
OR BALE—Prize-winning mammoth Bronte Tur-
keys.Eggs In season.ltockhillBroe.,!"t.WayneJn*
FOB BALE—Short-horn bulls from 1 toll months
Bid.   JOHN   McCASLIN   &  SONS, Franklin,
In*.
FOB SALE—White Leghorn chicks.   DR. W. J.
EISTUN, U North Meridian street, Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALB—M head of   fine Cotswold Bheep.   Address, or call on, MARTJN   PEARSON, Greenfield, Ind.
FOR SALE—A few   nice Brown   Leghorn pullets,
tleach'.   Come quick.   J. L. BKENTON.Petersburg, Iud.
FOR SALE—Whlte and Brown Leghorns, Aylesbury and Pskln docks.   TILSON A ROBISON,
Rocklane, Ind.
FOR SALE—Pure Valley White and Early Calico
corn.   Address A. W. BEWSEY, Colfax, Clinton couniy, Ind.
FOR 8AI.B-a flrst-class W. P. B. Spanish cockerels,  cheap.    Address  STANTON   A  GIIE(_(_,
Greenwood, Ind.
IT.OR BALE—Clinton seed corn, potato onions and
?     vegetable d!shc:oth. Address W. E. JACKSON,
Knlghtstown, Ind.
FOR SALE—Graded Jersey cows and heifers. Send
for catalogues, descriptions, etc. Address THEO.
P. HACOHKY, Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALK-Dark Brahmas, Black Cochins, Plymouth Rock cockerels from prizestrains. Cheap
lf taken soon.   C. ADAMS. St. Tonis Crossing, Ind.
TpOR SALE-A few choice Shepherd pups. Scotch
_V Collie (Troi-sc-d with English Shepherd. Inquire
ol OEO. BBCKLEW, Wolf (Ja-eek, Marshall Co., Ind.
FOR SALE-Selected seed corn-Yellow Dent,
Learning and Mammoth While, tl 25 per bushel,
sacks added. Address JAS. M. BRANSON, Farmland, Ind.
FOR BALE—300 extra fine Plymouth Rocksand
Buff Cochins, bred from my "Prizewinners."
Bend for illustrated clrcnlar with prizes won. SID.
CONGER. Plat Rock. Ind.
FOR SALE-Selected seed corn. Yellow Dent. My
corn ls very large eared and deep grain. Mat-ores early. Jl per bushel. sackS-S cents. Address J.
M. VANCE, Springboro, Ind.
17IOR BALE—A choice lot of yearling Cotswold
_' ewes, bred to my Imported ram, Duke of Gloster
—prefer to sell In lots of five or more. HENRY C.
MEREDITH, Cambridge City, Ind.
FOR 8A LE—Three Bron ze turkey gobblers, 2 yearling birds, weight 29 and SO pounds each: 1 two-
year-old, weight 34 pounds. Price, M, 16 and tt each.
T. M. REVEAL, Clermont, Ind.
FOR BALE—A flue lot of Poland China pigs, from
8 to 12 weeks old. Eligible to record ln the Central P. C. R. ITices reasonable and satisfaction guar-
anteed.   PITZER <_. GWINN, Kokomo, Ind.
FOR SALE—Our Snort-horn breeding bull, Richard 5th 36787, for want of further use; also a few
choice yearling heifers and bull calves. Send for catalogue.   EZRA SWAIN & SON, Noblesville, Ind.
FOR SALE—Bronze turkeys and Toulouse geese,
from the stock npon which we took *32 in premiums at the National Poultry Show in 1880. Address J. P. PQRSYTH <_. SON, franklln, Ind.      eow
FOR SALE-25 flrst-class Poland China plgs.weight
_._, 'rom 50 to 00 pounds each, from recorded sows.
Price, $10 each, If taken In this month. Address J.
CUNNINGHAM A CO., Miami, Miami county, Ind.
FOR SALE—A desirable stock and grain farm of
100acres; high rolling land, well watered,good
orchard, fences and neighborhood, house and large
barn. _ or infrrrmatlon, address J. M. ARMSTRONG
ITuntin.ton, Ind.
TLi.OJt ALE—Buff Cochlns,_._li dollars a trio, good
X birds; heavy leg and loe feathering; not exhibition birds of course, but gcod substantial fowls.
Satisfaction guaranteed or no sale. Eggs M per sitting of 13. AddressJOHN A. YOUNG, Shelbyville.
Indiana. *
FOKSALE-Seven Cotswold ewes. Imported, will
register; very flne; ewes will have lambs ln
March; also 16 bucks, Including Gray Prince. Must
sell as I have to give possession of farm March 1. Ad
dress CAL F. DARNELL, 738 North Illinois street.
Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SALE-ROBERT CRAIG, Greenwood, Tnd.,
has several Imported and grade Clydesdala
horses of various ages at low figures. Mr. C. will go
to Scotland early in the spring and Is prepared to Im-
g)rt all classes of stock at a reasonable commission,
eferences given. -
FORSALE—Two fine bull calves, 7 months old,
color deep red; 2 two-year-old heifers, safe ln
calf; also some nice Poland China pigs, weight 50 to
100 pounds each, and a splendid lot of BufT Cochin
cockerels, only (1 each. Address L. H. AIKMAN
Box 21, Dana, Vermillion county, Ind.
FOR SALE^One of tbe best stock farms in Southern Indiana, SX miles from Bloomington, 2%
from R.R. station; 400 acres: 275 under cultivation;
2 houses, 2 barns and other outbuildings; would sell
240 acres. Price. f_> per acre. For further partlcu-
lars, address WM. A. ROGERS, Bloomington, Ind.
FOR BALE—Farm of 160 acres, ior grain or stock,
no better inthe State; 15 miles north of this
city; e_ cellent walnut and sugar tree soil, sandy
loam; perpetual running stock water and no waste
land; good frame house, 8 rooms, cellar, etc., good
barn; excellent fences,in a flne country VA miles
of a good R. R. town. Price only $50 per acre. M.
ARBUCKLE, 58 E. Market St., Indianapolis.
FOR SALE-One ot the finest farms around Edin-
burg, Ind., on Bine river; no better land; 133 to
315 acres; would sul t purchaser; you must see thia to
appreciate it; good improvements; if a man has the
. money he can get a great bargain In thisland: %
mile of Edinburg. We are bound to sell, have a good
reason which we explain. V. K. MORRIS, East
Market street, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE-A flue farm in Clay township, Dear-
_i ^_°." c°"nty, Ind., of 153 acres; one mile Irom O.
ana M. R. 11 10 miles from Aurora on a good pike
road one mile from Dillshorough.near three churches
and a graded school. There is a good 2-story frame
heuse, a large frame barn, a good oichard, all In good
order; SO acres of limber, balance In gr^ss and pasture. Price, «5,300. Terms easy, Possession given
1st of next March. Address J. 8. BECKETT. Aurora, Ind.
F°S. S_k.L.K";0.f °' ,.nebeB*tAimsot '«»«esIn
the Btate, in 16 miles of this city, fine 10-room
house, 3 barns; ad-olnlng a good town of 800 people-
110 acres wheat; over200acr_sundercultlvatlon;soi_ie
fine timber, 1,000 trees ln sugar camp; this farm will
be sold at a great bargain for cash; the cheapest farm
I ever offered; no trade taken; railroad near; pike
in front of house; su_ar tree and walnut land. Come
and seo it. V. K. MORRIS, 58 East Market street
Indianapolis.  '
WANTED.
"VT7"ANTEI>-1,500 logs to saw by the thousand. Ad-
TV     drees G. R. HENRY, Jordan, Jay county,Ind.
WANTED—Local agents ln every county for
horse insurance against death and theft. Address AMERICAN LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION.
Indianapolis, Jnd.
WANTED—First class capable solicitors to sell
for the largest, moat thoroughly reliable nursery firm West. Address-L. H.SPAULDlNG,Spring-
fleld, 111.   Name this paper.
WANTED—Reliable men to sell nursery stock.
Good wages and steady employment to good
salesmen. Address with references D. H. PATTY &
CO., Nurserymen, Geneva, N. Y.
ViTANTED—To sell or exchange for land one gen-
T T     eral store, good trade, splendid location, good
orops.   Satisfactory reasons for selling.   Address 3>.
W. BOLBN A BRO.. Isabel, Edgar Co., Ills.
WANTED—Your patronage for spectacles and
eye glasses. I make a specialty ot the business
and have always a full stock In pebble, cataract, and
other flne lenses, in frames to suit. THOMAS H.
CLAPP. Optician. 46 North Penn. St.. Indianapolis.
inimiEi.i_Ayn._m-i.
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WINE imEF/nERS' JOURNAL, ?l per yeu.   A.
K. 8AUNDE1W, Indianapolis, Jnd.
FARMS FORSALE OR KXCHANOK-In Howard and adjoining counties, ranging in price,
size and payments to suit pureha»ers. Some special
bargains.   STUART <fc 1IOSS, Kokomo, Ind.
ONE of the Largest Nurseries inthe state*. Ge*
neva Nureerj, Geneva, N. Y., established, 1846,
by W. A T. Smith. Has 600 acrea of fruit and ornamental stock, roses, shrubs, etc. B. E. RANDALL,
Aroma, Hamilton Co., Ind., l» our only duly authorized agent in Central Indiana, io wham all inquiries
■heuid be addressed.
giwe jitnclt.
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| |D. J. "Whitmore, Casstown, Ohio, has
lately purchnsed 25 head of Jersey oows
and heifers.
Barclay Moone, Jerome, Ind., haa
bought of T. M. Reveal, '^Empress" 720,
bred to Star of the West,535, C. P. C. R. for
whieh he paid a good round price.
Mr. J. Cunningham, Miami, Ind,, has
lately sold and shipped to several pointsiu
other states, some of his fine strain of Poland Chinas, and Plymouth Rocks.
—. _m	
An edict against betting has been issued
by the police at Berlin, Prussia, and a
flourishing trotting association ther.
promises to quit the business as the result
Mr. -V. J. Hasselman, of this city, was
a few days ago offered ?350 for a very fine
Jersey heifer calf, and refused to tabe it
Sweepstakes Duke,a noted animal, stands
at the head of Mr .Hasselman's herd of
Jerseys.
Messrs. Powell Brothers, Springboro, Pennsylvania, have lately received
from Scotland, several large importations
of Clydesdale horses, and probably now
have the largest collection of Clydesdale
horses in the world.
Mr. A. Hartman, states that he was
most agreeably surprised in a recent
visit to the herds of Geo. W. Thomas,
Homer, Rush Co., Ind. He found both
his superb herd of Short-horns and swine
in prime condition in all respects. Mr.
Thomas has a fine red strain of Shorthorns, which have always been admired
in the show ring and which have always
taken off a  good  share of premiums.
Experiments have been made by the
Wisconsin State University to determine
if smut is poisonous to cattle. Forseveral
days after the experiments began no effect appeared. Then one cow refused to
eat the smut while the other seemed to
thrive upon a peck of smut per day; but
suddenly her temperature fell six degrees
in as many hours, and in anotherhourshe
died. On the post-mortem examination
no lesions of importance were found.
The first stomach was full of food while
the fourth was nearly. Prof. Henry concluded that smut killed the cow.
Dick Jones, of Flat Rock "Valley herd
Columbus, Indiana, has recently made
some very fine additions to his herd of
Poland Chinas, among which are two
fine young males, Exchange, and Three-
twenty-nine, bought of W. A. Macy, Lewisville, Ind,, and recorded in 3d Vol. C. P.
C. R., also three extra young sows from
John W. Baker, Somerville,' Ohio, one
sired by Baker's Tom Corwin 689, C. P. C.
R., two by Dick Corwin. " They are fine
specimens. He is breeding to Capt. Bates,
No 719, C. P. C. R., Jim Garfield, No 739,
two extra breeding hogs. He expects
something fine for the spring trade from
such noted sows as Ella Fisk, No. 946.
Emma Merton 836, Lady Reveal, No. 954,
and many others of equal note.
Silos and Ensilage.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I am glad to seo the subject of Silos and
Ensilage mentioned in the Farmer. It
seems to me that it is a subject which demands our careful study and attention.
The question of feeding stock is the prime
question the farmer and stock raiser has
to solve, and the result of the solution to
a very groat extent, determines the
amount of profits he realizes. If what is
claimed for the ensilage and that manner
of preparing and preserving feed, is true,
it is of the highest importance that farmers generally know It, and realize the fact.
Until a week or two ago I have never seen
a plan or even any hint of one for oon-
structinga silo practical to a common farmer, on account of the great cost of them.
But if one can be built of wood—using
sawdust etc., as was'mentioned in a previous number of the Farmer, that would
change the aspect of the subject greatly.
Now I would like full information in regard to how difficult it is to preserve green
feed this way. Is a wooden wall filled in
with sawdust a sure way of preserving the
food? Also about how many cubic feet
is required to hold a ton of  the ensilage?
How tight must the floor be, also how
much weight should be placed upon the
feed after it is stored?
US write this and ask these questions In
order that this subject may be well discussed; I, for one, am anious to learn the
full facts and practicability of it to oommon feeders. I hopo that any person
knowing anything about it will let it be
known; and that the editorof the Farmer
will give the readers the benefit of all he
can learn on the above subject.       B. SI.
Henry Co., Ind.
The Barlow Rotary Corn Planter, Manufactured by the Vandiver Corn Planter Co., Quincy, 111.
Swine Diseases.
Paper read before the State Swine Breeders' Association, by D. L. Thomas, Rash ville, Ind.
During the past third of a century wonderful changes have been wrought in all
classes of live stock. And none of them
bears the stamp of progress more clearly
than the improved hog. The "elm peeler"
that required two or throe years to grow
and fatten has been supplanted by ^ne
that can readily be put into market at
eight to ten months of age. It enables
the farmer to put at least two crops of
hogs into market instead of one. But
while this product is so quickly created
the farmer neglects to carefully consider
the modus operandi. If a feeder of a reflective mind would stop and think when
throwing out feed to his hog, how soon
that raw material will be changed into
pork he would be struck with wonder and
amazement. In a few months feed is
changed into blood, bone, hair, fat and
muscle of a large hog. Feeding the'un-
proved hog under pressure, so to speak,
necessitates a rapid assimilation of food.
The improvement and speedy development impairs the vitality of the hog and,
in my judgmeut, makes the tender pig
more liable to disease.
And since we have changed the nature
of the hog we have overlooked the importance of keepingpace with a corresponding
change in his general treatment. He is
out of his natural climate, else he would
be supplied with a better coat to protect
him from our climatic changes. Indeed,
the breeder's fancy demands that the hog's
coat be made finer and thinner so that he
will be still poorer clad for our climate.
So we have taken the hog out of his native
climate and entirely changed his habits-
two radical changes. Now under such
circumstances, can we successfully raise
him in a wreckless, slip shod manner?
In early boyhood I saw the"elm peeler"
roaming the forest at will. His omnivorous habits met with a great variety of
food. He ate mast, berries and reptiles.
With his long nose he dug up worms, bugs
and roots. He had access to all the native
plants and herbs and to the ashes and char-
ooal found in the "clearing" of the pioneer.
The alkaline salts of the soil were in easy
reach. His instinct pointed out whatever
was required to correct irregularities in
his system. The forest sheltered him
from storms and piercing winds. He enjoyed healthy surroundings. Now, the
forest is changed to fertile fields. The hog
is brought from nature's shelter into open
ground, one-fourth clad with a suit of fine,
thin hair. He keenly feels every climatic change. The modern hog wears a ring
in his delicate nose and lives upon a carpet of sod, while worms and bugs aro pro-
pragated beneath to prey upon the next
crop of graini He gets no flesh to oat;
native herbs have disappeared; nor can he
dig for roots. He is confined generally to
one diet—grass or grain. At fattening time,
he is put ina pen and fed inthe mud,
sleeps in mud and storm, gets sick and
his owner can't understand it! One hog
raiser furnishes no protection from climat
ic changes and his hogs contract cold and
die. Another wishes to "change" his hogs
and tnrns them from sheltered beds into
exposed fields and diphtheria sweeps away
alarge per cent. A third, moro careful
than the average, builds a tight hog house
with poor or no ventilation. Of a cold
morning a dense vapor Is rising and the
hogs aro  nearly  gu__boated;   and   wheij
called out to feed they are thoroughly
chilled. Pneumonia numbers its victims.
A' fourth neglects to give his hogs the "preventives" that they used to get in the forest and their systems are clogged with
parasites. The intestines of some are punctured ;tuo lard worm preys upon others ;and
still others are afflicted with lung worms.
Death reduces his herd. Now, let these
hog raisers meet and talk over the situation. Without carefully noting the circumstances attending each herd; nor the
symptoms wheu sick; without a single
post mortem examination, they unanimously agree that all their hogs died of
"cholera" and adjourn sine diel
The foregoing prepares the way to say
that in my humble opinion, when we, the
swine producers of the United States,
come to give more earnest thought to our
business; to study the nature and wants
of tho hog and supply them; to apply more
practical, common sense rules in the general management of our herds, then the
mortality among swine will be greatly
diminished.
What I have said willsuggeest remedies,
in a great measuro, for the evils mentioned.
But the thoughtful breeder can easily manage all these difficulties in comparison with
the terrible malady,
SWINE PLAGUE OR FEVER,
that has been so destructive and so little
understood.. I have always read with interest everything I could find bearing upon
this subject, and also made it a point to
converse freely with persons who have
suffered financially by this disease. But
I never had any practically experience till
last fall when I lost a few fine Poland
Chinas.. Fortunately, at that juncture, I
had access to U. S. Agricultural reports
treating upon the identical disease, which
I Studied carefully and with great interest. And I wish to present briefly my
own observations and especially the germ
of the reports mentioned. In August,
1878, Commissioner Le Due, having beei
votei. an appropriation by Congress to
defray expenses, appointed a "commission to investigate and determine the
causes producing, and if possible, discover
remedies for some of the more contagious
and destructive diseases Incident to domestic animals." He appointed examiners in the states of New York, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia. Some of those examiners pursued their investigations, at intervals, till 1880. The result proves that
that was the most gigantic step ever taken
in this country toward understanding and
stamping out contagious diseases.
All the diseases heretofore mentioned
have beon canfounded with swine plague.
Itis a distinct and separate disease, and was
imported—like pleuro-pneumonia among
cattle. It has played havoc among herds
under every conceivable circumstance and
respected no breed from the veriest scrub
to the most highly bred. No "specific,"
or "sure cure," has boen found and prob-
ablynever will be. Preventive and sanitary measures should always form a part
of the general management of swine. Yet
there have been outbreaks that would
seem to baffle sanitary regulations. In one.
instance, large numbers died with the
plague thst had fine, shady range ou rolling ground aud fed principally on the buttermilk of a creamery with a small ration
of corn. In another, 117 head (nearly a
whole herd) died that had a range of alarge
olover field and fed  tha  slops  of  a  city
hotel. A herd fed the offal of a slaughter
house, at Charlotte, N. C, with other food,
was the flrst to take the disease in that locality, and suffered greatly. And quite
frequently it broke out f.mong hogs following fat cattle. Dr. Salmon, of N. C,
says hogs have died to an alarming extent
from the mountains to the sea board; and
that he "met with hundreds of cases
..jvhcr.-e*-. animals had largo pastures and
other feed in addition daily, where such
popular preventives as salt and ashes, sulphur, tar, oil of turpentine, charcoal and
copperas wero freely and regularly given,
whero the majority of animals were
neither too fat to be vigorous nor so poor
as to be wanting in this respect, and yet
from 50 to 90 per cent, succumbed to this
affection." He, also, found it "as fatal in
in the elevated and healthful West, with
its immense mountain raDges, as in the
malarious East." Further, "the disease
rages irrespective of these climatic and
hygienic extremes; an_. this becomes still
plainer when we add that Swannanoa
township, of Buncombe county (mountainous) the loss reached 60 per cent."
The commissioners held, probably, a
thousand post mortem examinations, made
numerous experiments, tried many remedies and preventives and learned the observations and experiments of hundreds of
farmers. So, from all sources they have
gathered a valuable fund of information.
Dr. Dunlap, Iowa, in pursuing his investigation, gives this important rule:
" H the herd is not doing well, if they do
not eat well and appear less active than
usual, at once examine the tongues of a
few and notice the color; if the tongues
are red and contracted, give sour slop or
turn them on clover pasturo or on green
food, and they will at once improve. • If
their tongues are large, pale and flabby,
give corn, corn-meal, cooked root vegetables, and add soda to the feed, or soda and
milk, but give no sour slop. The large,
white, pale toDgue shows that the stomach
and blood are in acid condition and need
alkalies; the contracted red tongue shows
a subacid condition, and that acids or sour
remedies are needed. For years the fanners'
journals have lauded clover fields and have
advised keeping swine upon clover during the entire summer, on the score of
economy of feed and health. As far as it
goes this is good advice, and yet following
this advice has been the chief cause of the
spread ofthe contagious diseases among
swine. When the clover range is on clay
soil, or the hogs have access to clay banks,
and the use of rings is avoided, all will go
well." Otherwise the treatment Invites
disease.
J. Dr. Detlmers and Prof. Law tried many experiments by inoculation and found that
the virulent matter would take after being
frozen, dried, or preserved in liquids for a
year. The}, successfully inoculated calves,
sheep, rabbits and rats.. The virulent matter is fonnd most concentrated in the excrement and urine of hogs. Animals feeding with diseased hogs are liable to devour
the virus and spread the disease. Birds
may carry it an their feet and alight on
hogs miles away, and by their feet coming
in contact with a wound inoculate the
plague. Crows and buzzards may carry
germs of the disease in their excrement to
distant herds. In various ways it can be
communicated. The plague is not considered a sporadic disease, but is communicated by inoculation or the animal taking
tha germ into its system in its drink or
food. Tho germ lias been detected readily
in ponds and streams frequented by sick
hogs. Seemingly well authenticated instances are cited whero tho diseaso has been
spread by tho wind, water, hauling dead "
hogs to rendering tanks, shipping sick hogi
on railroads and hogs eating portions ot
dead animals that havo boon carried into
their pastures by dogs or running streams'.
But these aro contradicted by herds of
hogs remaining healthy in lots adjoining
the pens of sick hogs; by healthy herds-
not contracting the disease when drinking
daily from tho samo stream and just below
whore sick hogs drink and wallow; and
last fall hundreds of bogs that had died ol
the swino plague were hauled to tho Rush-'
villo rendering tank and I could not learn
of a single hog along the highways contracting the diseaso; and tho offal (lungs,
lives, etc.) of those dead hogs wero thrown
out and consumed by a herd of hogs and
pigs raised in the lot around tho roudering
tank. That has been the custom of the
proprietor for years, and he never has tha
disease in his herd. Theso observations go
to show that we havo not yet discovered,
to a certainty, how the disease is spread..
SYMPTOMS   OP   SWINE rLAOUE   OR   EEVEIf.
The general symptoms nearly always
present are: Drooping ears; dull look of
the eyes; staring appearance of the hair;
back arched; the flank tucked up; stupor;
loss of appetite; disposition to lie down
with nose hid in "the bedding; staggering
gait; shivering and more or less coughing;
offensive smell and peculiar color of tho
excrements. Other symptoms are often
present; vomiting; constipation; sometimes purging; bleeding at the nose; erup-
tious on the ears; mucus in the corner of
the eyes; partial or total blindness; accelerated and often laborious breathing r
spasmodio contraction of the abdominal
muscles; vitiated appetite; and sometimes
the skin, lips, gums and lower jaw bone
become ules-ated. •' •
THE MORBID PROCESS, ■*■"•■ P"
though essentially the game, may have its
seat in many different organs or parts of
tho system and produce a great variety of
changes. Hence, tho same dieeaso presents
diflerent aspects in different animals.
Tho disease may attack the brain, lungs,
heart, liver, pleura and pericardium, peritoneum, lymphatics, spleen, all mucous
membranes, and even the skin, The pulmonic tissues and lymphatic glandsaro invariably affected.
When the attack is violent and Its principal seat is located in any of the vital organs, death is liable to ensue at any moment. Whon an important organ is parr
alyzed, thero can be no hope of recovery.
In less violent attacks a rational treatment may assist nature in throwing off the
diseaso; while animals having a mild attack, particularly of tho less important organs can recover without treatmont. "
Last fall I had fivo head attacked with diarrhea. Two, from the first, seemed to be
beyond human aid. I gave tbootherthree,
(in fact all fivo) essence of Jamaica ginger
which seemed to help them and they recovered. But the idea of an absolute
"specific" is an absurdity. When such : a
thing shall have beon discovered, physicians will also have discovered specifics
for all our ills, which, when placed in
every household will arrest diseases and
tho human family will cease to die!
Those commissioners tried overy remedy
they  could devise  and  heard   battalions
of farmers relate thoir treatment,   including    many    "sure    cures"    but    found
nothing that proved satisfactory.   But  in
the way of preventives thoy seem to have
olved tho problem.   Dr. Detmers mado as
series of experiments with carbolic  acid,
iodine,  hyposulphite of  soda,  etc.,  and
succeeded  remarkably  well in  arresting
the spread  of the  disease.   Carbolic acid
is recommended as preferable on account
of cheapness, leaving no bad effect,  and
boing oasilyadmlnisterd by aDy ono.   Ia
his experiments he took herds containing
sick hogs and separated the sick from the
others and gave 10 drops of  carbolic  acid
to every hundred pounds of  live   weight
in pure water.   In no Instance were there
new ca_es of sick bogs.   Pigs were  inoculated and others  fed  infected   food  and
given tho acid and no evil effects followed.
So it seems an absolute  preventive   has
been found.   Swine plague has existed In
this country for over a quarter of  a  century and spread to twenty-nino states »nd
territories.   Yet it may be stamped out if
the sick hogs aro speedily destroyed or separated,    preventives    used  among    the
healthy hogs and sanitary rules ob. erved.
I am a firm advocate of the popular preventives, such as salt, a_hes, tar, sulphur,
black antimony, lime, eopjx.ras,   etc.,   for
these wiil   exj el  the paiasites  and  . avo
thousands of hogs annually from the   ravages  of   other dineaKC-4   first   mentioned.
And without access t'i theso tho hog   will
become debilitated; audit stands to   reason that he would be in poor condition  lo
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