People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — Hog Cholera Cure. [ARTICLE]

Hog Cholera Cure.

1 Editor Journal of Agriculture: ’ I frequently hear of hogs dyi g with cholera. Now, I take it for granted that when a man can do good when it costs nothing and he refuses to do it he certainly is no philanthropist. During the last five years my hogs have taken the cholera four times, and I <have always cured two-thirds of those that were sick, and stopped it on the rest with little trouble and expense. When one is known to be sick with cholera, put the whole herd in a close pen. Get a long neck bottle; put one gill of milk and a half a teaspoonful of pure carbolic acid in it. Let one man catch the hog by the ears ayd set him up between his legs, holding his head up, another man with the bottle in one hand and a short stick in the other as thick as a man’s wrist, put the stick in the animal’s mouth crosswise so that he can not break the bottle in pouring the contents down. Put him out of the pen, for fear \»,u might dose him twice, win h would be dangerous, as the acid is poisonous in targe doses I they are not all well in a we. k repeat the dose. I never had io repeat it. [ never senu, .-> > them, but if confined i <. p ‘ turned them out. The ment spent many thou< c i.mi o' dollars to find out > remedy for this <li-* a 1 mistake not. ca ■. > i in small doses, giv* . n • y internally, and Mjr. e sick from the i eat i - • i ing the carcass . . s decided to be t . hoc < ? stampingout lu