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Show GOOD FOR HOGS. <br><br> Take six bushels cob charcoal or three bushels common charcoal, eight pounds salt, two quarts air slacked lime and one bushel wood ashes. Break the coal into quite small pieces and thoroughly mix the other ingredients with it. Then take twenty ounces of copperas, dissolve it in hot water, and with an ordinary watering pot sprinkle it over the whole mass, again mixing thoroughly. Put the mixture, [illustration: Medicine Box For Hogs] or so much of it as you can, in a box (an ordinary dry goods case will do excellently) supplied with a feeding trough at the bottom, as shown in cut, or in any similar way that ingenuity may suggest. The box must be covered, set on supports a few inches from the ground and securely fastened by stakes driven in the ground. <br><br> This preparation is kept where the hogs can get at it at will, and is one of the best regulators of digestion and promoters of health and thrift that we have ever found. In many years of extensive hog raising we have never had a case of hog cholera and rarely ever any other disease, and that fortunate result is, in our opinion, largely due to this "condition powder" and the means it affords the hogs for getting certain mineral substances that in their wild state they find in the earth and that are essential to their health and well doing. This paper should be preserved.-Farm, Stock and Home. |