LAM’S 
THREE 
RECIPES, 
To Prevent and Cure in their 
first stages, 
GAPES, IMP, HOG AID 
GHICKEI CHOLERA. 
BY 
JL> HLa^ng,, 
CO YE DALE, LEWIS Co., KT 
Copy-Right—lBB3, hv A. M. 
/ kJ 
iu the office of the Librarian of 
Congress, at Washington, D. C. 'TIIESE aEUSFES 
If you use the best drugs and follow 
the directions given. 
I say so to you understandingly, as 
I have used them ipr years, and still 
use them with entire success. 
But everything must be done under- 
standingly—something to be learned.. HO© GHOXiERAii 
Ko. 1. Two gallons of water. 
One-half pound Sulphate of Iron. 
One once of Sulphuric Acid. 
Mix—-shake extra well before using. 
Best to mix in a two gallon jug, 
or a gallon, using halt of the mate rial. 
Add three or four good sized nails. 
This will keep it well mixed when 
shook. Keep it sitting on the ground in# 
a damp and cool place or in the cellar. 
Hose: One table-spoonful to each 
hog. If just taking the disease, three 
times a day, or it may be given every 
three hours, it it seems best. The num- 
ber of times and amount of dose should 
be regulated by the severity of the at- 
tack. Ko injury will arise if the dose 
is doubled, but the time should he ex- 
tended between doses. 
JLs a Preventive* 
Give a table-spoonful once a week 
in,half gallon of soap suds, or if the 
suds cannot be had, .use teaspoonful of 
,No. 2 with it. If the Cholera is in your 
locality, or your hogs show any rough- 
ness of the hair, appear listless, &c., 
give half the last named dose once a 
day. Yon can use it every three hours, 
once a day, a week or a moiyth, as sur- 
rounding circumstances seem to de- 
mand. Harbadoes Aloes, one pound. 
Glauber’s Salts, four ounces. 
Dose; One table-spoonful to each 
Yo. 2, 
hog. 
If your hogs are just taking the 
Cholera, give for first dose the full 
amount of Yio. 2 dissolved in slop or 
milk, then Y~o. 1, as, directed. 
The first visible symptoms of Hog 
Cholera is, constipation. Your hogs 
may seem slick and doing well, but if 
you findtheir droppings, hard,round and 
dry, first u»e YTo. 2, then, Y"o. 1 with 
suds will destroy the germs, and keep, 
them in subjection. Yq. 1 with the 
suds is the essential* It topes up and 
prevents constipation, thereby causing 
the bog to be thrifty and hardy. 
If the hog sutlers, appears chilly, 
give of 
No. 3. Y iter, half a pint. 
Alum, one-quarter pound,.. 
Carbonate of Ammonia, two ox. 
Oil of American worm seed, two oz, 
Peruvian bark~oite-quarter pound. 
Tine, ol black snake root, three oz; 
Dose: Table-,spoonful every five 
fionrs, until;symptoms are abated. 
If diarrhea ensues, give of 
Yo. -1. 
Tine, of Gentian, three ounces. Sulphuric Ether, three drams. 
Ginger, two ounces. 
Dose; Table-spoonful every four 
hours until symptoms are abated Al- 
ways keep ready Eos. 1 and 2, 3 and 
4 are only given in extreme cases. 
Generally when they are so far gone as 
to require their use, it costs more in 
time and patience than they will bring. 
PRS¥EMTIOJI 
Is the object to work for, Eos. 1 and 
2 and the charcoal feed named hereaf- 
ter, are the great essentials. 
USE Dislnteotaets. 
Experiments and close observation 
demonstrates that the hair of the hog 
is the principal lurking place ot the 
seed or germs of the disease. 
In the fall of the year when they be- 
gin to pile up in their beds, it spreads 
through a flock in a very short time. 
This is the reason it always deci- 
mates pigs faster than grown hogs, 
larger herds faster than small ones, &c. 
With a little care this can be remedied 
by using disinfectants. To three 
gallons of soap suds add two table- 
spoonfuls of coal oil. They may be put 
in it and rubbed thoroughly . 
By adding half teaspoon ful of If your hogs have cholera, separate 
all the sick*, and confine them in as 
small a space as they can conveniently 
occupy. If the weather is warm, they 
should have a wet mud to wallow in. 
This can be supplied by throwing a few 
buckets of water over places where they 
“root” the dirt up. They must have a 
wallow, and it is better to make it than 
to allow them running water, as they 
drink too much, and the water is the 
first and principal cause- of the spread 
of the disease. Before you confine the 
hoars in the enclosure, scatter straw, 
leaves or brush over it and burn. Fire 
is the great disinfectant. It kills the 
germs in the ground and gives yon a 
chance to cure. It the weather is cold 
furnish plenty of clean straw for bed- 
ding, but he sure and burn all up 
every three days. 
Carbolic Acid woiild.be better. 
A little air-flaked lime should be 
sprinkled over the floor of the pens. 
If death seems to claim more than 
its share, dissolve cue pound of Sul- 
phate of Iron in six gallons of water, 
adding one ounce of Sulphuric Acid. 
Sprinkle over hogs, floors -of pen, <fec. Foxp Goixs]b> 
Your hogs will cough in dusty 
weather. Add three drops of Carbolic 
Acid to jSTo. 1. Give once a day, 
or if bad, three times a day, until 
op-ed. Do not neglect this. 
Wliat to IFssefL 
As much depends upon feed as med- 
icine. Our aim must be to correct the 
acidity of the stomach. 
xtotten or sour feed of any kind, 
(grains) must not be used. They 
must have all the charcoal they can 
use. Their corn and everything must 
be fed just as hot as they will eat it. 
Dampen shelled corn a little; thor- 
oughly mix with it enough air-slaked, 
or dust lime, to give it a white appear- 
ance. Feed this once a day while 
your hogs are in danger of cholera, and 
especially to all of those sick. 
Another essential: Lay ears of corn 
before the fire, allow them to burn to a 
black charr, that is, to charcoal. Feed 
this hot once aday during the epidemic. 
If they refuse to eat charred corn, 
-cake charcoal find pulverize it; mix 
with corn meal, middlings and iresh 
milk. They seldom refuse this. 
II they have diarrhae., a tea made 
of corn cobs, will often afford relief. and it never fails to cure a young calf 
of scours, if given in time. Take 12 
good sized dry corn cobs; put in a ves- 
sel and cover with three quarts of water, 
cover tightly and boil down until one 
quart is left—enough for three hogs. 
CHS®KEHt OEOIiSRI. 
Add of JSTo. 1, one table-spoonful to 
each pint of drinking wafer. This, 
they should have once a( week to pre- 
vent chicken cholera. If any sympt- 
oms of the disease, give once a day. 
If some of them take it, give half 
teaspoonful mixed with same amount 
of water, every three to five hours, un- 
til symptoms are better. 
If they are if is not best to 
allow them any water, unless the mix- 
ture is in it. bf you, cannot confine, 
your poultry, so as to give it in their 
drinking water, mix it in meal and 
feed it. 
If the disease is epidemic in, your 
flock, give once a day, ten drops of 
Carbolic Acid with IN o. I], for a flock; 
of 12. Mix in tbeir feed. 
Gave once % week of* 
bio.s. 
Flour of Sulphur, one ounce. 
Air-slaked lime, table-spoonful. 
Mix; and feed in qorn meal or middlings. By feeding this once a 
week, a teaspoonful of wheat to each 
laying hen per day, the charcoal feed 
named hereafter, you have the mojst 
successful secret of gettinghens to lay. 
One ISssential 
Especially if exposed to cholera, is 
charcoal. Take ears of corn and roast 
or burn them as directed under H. C. 
Feed in,whole grains while hot. A 
good clean article of charcoal will do, 
but the charred corn is the best. It 
may be fed as often as convenient, but 
if sick, it should be tbe principal feed. 
Feed the limed corn as tor hogs. This 
is always good for poultry. 
Generally the first visible symptoms 
of ch(iiser:i in-poultry may be detected 
in their droppings being very dark and 
murky. Soon their feathers get 
rough; then their combs assume a 
dull red color, &c. If you notice any 
of the above symptoms, feed as di- 
rected and gradually enlarge the 
dose of Ho, 1 until symptoms disap- 
pear. 
The feather's of fowls are the prin- 
ciple lurking place of the seeds or 
germs or chicken cholera: therefore, 
it is essentially necessary that you use 
some disinfectant, particularly when 
vou have a few diseased ones. A very simple and good way is, keep 
a ban el or box of air-slacked lime;, 
after your fowls go to roost throw a 
little of it over and under them. 
If any have Cholera, do this every 
night until well. If they are in trees,, 
throw it among them. If it gets bad or 
assumes a contagious form, you must 
fumigate, or burn out, your poultry 
house as follow*; Take a lot of chips, 
burn them slowly in your house. Shut 
it up so as to heat and smoke it 
thoroughly. If kept up all day, the 
better. This effectually destroys the 
germs. Then to destroy lice, throw on 
a quantity of sulphur and close the door. 
Of a calm day it is best to build a 
chip fire under trees they roost in. If 
thoroughly smoked,, the work is done. 
Another essential. Yon must at all 
times keep a place for them to dust 
themselves.. The fore-going is for old 
or grpwn fowls, turkeys, guineas, geese 
and ducks. Young poultry of all 
ldnds,are liable to Cholera. Their bills 
and legs assume a white appearance; 
they become weak, feeble, Ac. They 
must not be crowded: give them more 
room and better ventilation; use plenty 
of lime over them, and be very sure 
they have no lice. If Cholera, use half a 
tea spoon ful of No. 1 jto pint of water. Use the cholera and Iron tonic. (See 
page 84 of “25 Years in the Poultry 
Yard/7) If is best to keep lime in 
their drinking water, but do not use it 
with Yo. 1, Carbolic Acid, Ac. . 
In certain stages of the atmosphere 
it assumes a very obstinate attitude. 
Almost impossible to stop it. It is best 
then to dissolve one pound af Sulphate 
of Iron in six gallons of water, adding 
one ounce of Sulphuric Acid. Sprinkle 
this overhead, on wall, floors and 
perches. Be sure every thing is clean. 
Plow or spade up the places where they 
have run fora longtime. 
I desire your success, but you will 
fail if you do not follow directions. 
Sulphate of Iron, to be good, must be 
kept lying on the ground, or in a cel- 
lar, so as to be of a dark, green color. 
lam permanently located here. If 
you, or any of your friends, ever need 
poultry of any kind, please to write 
me, as"l shall keep a lull stock of the 
best breeds at all times. 
*’*ir©Jlew dlmleira*55f 
So termed from their crops swelling 
and droppings being yellow. 
This is Crop Bound and Choleia. 
Nothing will do any good until you 
relieve their crops, which must be done 
by giving them qne table-spoonful of oil-or grease of some kind. After they 
swallow it, knead the contents of the 
crop with the hand, so as to commingle 
the oil and contents. This remedy can 
be kept up for at least a week, and give 
plenty of Yo. 1 to drink. Peed meal and. 
middlings mixed with warmed sweet 
milk. Be sure yon feed every thing 
hot. Compel them to run and liy. 
"Wheat or corn bran is very apt to pro- 
duce Crop bound, blew milk, char-, 
coal, gravel and hro. 1, relieves it. 
To Gisre 
OHIPKEK GHOXtISRA, 
Mix’ A o. 1 with equal parts of water. 
You can give table-spoonful every 
three or four hours, tne size of dose and 
time being regulated by the severeness, 
of the attack. 
With.a little care and practice, you 
can cure every one that has the “mopy” 
or “sleepy” cholera. 
I have found it b qst to. kqep Yo. 1 
in slop for hogs, or drinking water for 
poultry, all the time. Let their drink- 
ing vessels become saturated with it 
and you cannot get them to take the 
cholera.  How To Make Mr 
&ps Pi?©^rentiircß 
Take half a pint of lard: add there- 
to one ounce of pure leaf tobacco. 
Melt and boil them together ten min- 
utes. Let stand until almost cold—• 
must not be too hot—strain and press 
the tobacco out: then add half tea- 
spoonful of coal-oil, and teaspoonful of 
flour of sulphur, one of soda, half tea- 
spoonful of Carbolic Acid and \ tea— 
spoonful of turpentine. Keep stirred 
until cool, so as to be thoroughly mixed. 
If you use manufactured tobacco let it 
be as near the pure leaf as possible, and 
do not use quite so much of it. 
3Gsivectlons Sbi* Usiz&n>. 
- When the chicks are hardly dry, dip 
the tip of the finger in the salve; rub 
one good drop on each of their heads. 
Hub so as to reach th eflesh and close to 
the comb, and in the nostrils. Do not 
get it in their eyes, lie peat the third 
day; after this once a week. If wings 
begin to droop use oftener. Look for lice 
on their heads. Always rub the moth- 
er hen thoroughly when first taken f rom 
the nest. If lice are very bad, repeat the 
third day. If your chicks are gapeiug, 
give from one to two drops every hour 
until relieved Have a small box to erod 
with thin muslin, with some dust lime on it. As soon as yon give the G. P. 
drop'the chick in the lime box, when 
all in. tap the coyer lightly so as to com- 
pel them to sneeze. If they are very 
bad, hold their tongue down and drop, 
a little sulphur down their 
For old fowls that have lice, rub them 
thoroughly pn breast, under wings, &c. 
once a week. For scaley leg, lay the 
fowl on its back, hold its feet up and 
apply to the leg well. 
WHAT TO FEE©. Take equal 
parts of meal and middlings; mix very 
dry and crumble with a little red or cay- 
enne pepper always in it, aspoonlui of 
clean sand to a pin t. Just as soon as 
they can swallow feed cracked wheat? 
twice a day. 
WHAT TO ©RUSTIC. To half gak 
lon of water, add table-spoonful of lime. 
See they get nothing else tp drink while 
young. If join- poultry have Canker 
(their necks swell up) give half a tea- 
spoonful every three hours. 
T© Destroy Hsies 
In your coops or house. Sweep the 
roof, walls and floor, every place once 
a week. Get tl^p.rubbish in a pile, and 
burn in the coop,if you can. Whitewash 
with teaspoonful each of coal-oil and 
carbolic acid, to one gallon of wash. 
Fill every crack with it. Throve a little How I Oni?ei tSie 
fyweiglit Hops 
The hogs had been on clover all sea- 
son. In the fall they were on oak 
mast and clover. Two of them had 
strayed away some four miles, to a lo- 
cality where some twenty hogs had 
died with cholera. They were found 
there and all taken home and put in a 
pen. When first discovered, the two 
that had strayed away were dead in 
the pen. I find that hogs exposed to 
the “germs” of cholera and using on 
oak mast, are more apt to take the 
cholera, and a larger percent die from 
it. The reason is, cholera itself first 
attacks the digestive functions, and 
the corn tends to costiveness. Com- 
bine the two and the result is selfevi- 
dent. When I first saw the hogs, every 
one was costive—droppings hard and 
lumpy. 
The first dose I gave was 'No. 1 in 
slop at daylight. Two hours afterwards 
I gave a full dose of salts, aloes and a 
table-spoonful of flour of sulphur, 
mixed in wheat bran and middlings. 
The aloes should he powdered fine 
and mixed with the bran while dry. 
They seemed dry at noon—I gave lime water (a pint of air-slaked lime in three 
gallons of water) in cheir slop. After 
this they were fed all the burnt corn 
they wonjd eat. At night they were 
given Ho. 1 in double strength, all 
they would drink. The second morn- 
ing I gave them (38) a quart of ground 
flaxseed made into a strong tea (keep 
covered while drawing) adding six 
diops of Carbolic Acid to each hog. 
See that each gyts an equsl share of 
this. I mix it in a thick bran mash, 
*yarm. After this I fed ail the hot 
burnt corn they would eat. Every 
three or four hours, from this I tried 
them with hot slop, and plenty of Ho- 
-1 in it—-only a few would drink.. 
Just as soon aa they began to eat 
If kept up the hot burnt corn, in all the 
slop I fed, and used plenty of charcoal 
in the slop I fed to them. I took 
hot coals of fire and dropped them in 
their slop so it would be fresh. Just 
as. soon as symptoms are better, and 
they would eat, I gave to each hog 
once a, day a teaspooytul gf flaxseed 
ground and made into tea. Plenty of 
lime water as before. If they do not 
seem to start right, mix a few drops of Carbolic Acid in their feed once a 
day, and be sure yon keep their bowels 
in a relaxed condition. The flaxseed 
and bran is good, but if it tails use the 
salts and aloes. 
When you have hogs running at 
large, and enclosed in a pen and began 
to feed corn and nothing else, they are 
very apt to have indigestion, particu- 
larly if the corn has been frozen, which 
will be followed by cholera, if any 
germs about. Follow this practice al- 
ways with your hogs, when you pen 
to force feed, use plenty of No. 1 in 
wheat bran. The bran is good, but 
can be gradually left off. If you have 
hoge that are very thin and begin to 
feed them, follow the same plan. I 
have always found it beneficial in for- 
cing hogs, to feed plenty of wheat 
bran, charcoal and lime water. 
A Perfet Cure. 
I saw the hogs butchered that had 
the cholera I have not seen hogs 
butchered for thirty years past, that 
had healthier livers—not one with a 
spot or blemish on it. Lungs were 
entirely healthy, and I never saw a 
lot of hogs get as fat on as little feed. 'Whenever you butcher hogs and find 
their liver spotted or diseased, you have 
cholera tainted meat, and your hogs 
have fattened very slow. By watching 
your hogs and the amount af feed they 
are using, and a systematic use of the 
remedies you have here given, you can 
always have your hags healthy; and 
then you can get as many pounds of 
meat to a bushel of corn as any other 
man. 
Poultry Cholera, 
I find that damp floors in coops and 
houses, is the fatal mistake of the great 
masses. Read page 62 of “25 Years 
in the Poultry Yard/’ as to ditch and 
filling up—of course all leaky roofs 
must be discarded. If you cannot get 
meat scraps, milk, &c., to feed your 
poultry, a strong flaxseed or cotton- 
seed tea mixed with soft feed and fed 
twice a week, seems to do very well. M ® TIG 
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