Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1858 — Certain Remedy for Hog Cholera. [ARTICLE]

Certain Remedy for Hog Cholera.

We learn from Mr. J. D. ('. Starke, western agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, that tlie great desideratum—a certain remedy for hog choldra, has been discovered by Mr A. I). Bond, of Cambridge City, in this Slate. He had been feeding 2,000 hogs in that vicinity, and lost no less 617, by hog cholera in a few weeks. He i set about the discovery of a remedy, and alter various experiments, made the fortunate discovery ot the following infallible antidote. Take: One pint Salt Petre. One pint Antimony. T wo pints ol Sulphur. Half pint of Copp. ras. Grind fine, and mix with ship stuff or corn meal, and teed dry. This proportion is for forty I hogs. One Iced each day lor three.: days, invariai bly arrests the tatal disease. Studinbaker, Wil T sou N. Myers, wiio have been feeding .3,000 hogs nt Troy, Ohio, lost Hill in a single day, by toe 'cholera, but immidiatelv checked the disease bv the above remedy. Such was there coniid.-ne -in its elficacy, that fresh Ilogs were put in the same pens where the others i.ad died- It is an advantage when the cholera breaks out, to l'e-d to all hogs alike. — Lajayette Cnirler.