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MISCELLANEOUS
VALUABLE
RECEIPTS.
255
No.
568.
Milk,
to
Preserve,
When
milk
contained
in
wire-corked
bottles
ig
heated
to
the
boiling-point
in
a
water-bath,
the
oxygen
of
the
included
small
portion
of
air
under
the
cork
seems
to
be
carbonated,
and
the
milk
will
afterwards
keep
fresh,
—
it
is
said,
for
a
year
or
two.
No.
569.
Alum
for
the
Hog
Cholera,
A
writer
says,
—
"
Last
May
my
hogs
were
attacked
with
hog
cholera;
and,
upon
mentioning
it
to
a
friend,
he
spoke
of
a
suggestion
published
in
the
Cincinnati
papers,
advising
the
use
of
alum.
I
pro-
cured some,
made
a
strong
solution,
(all
the
water
would
bear,)
and
drenched
all
I
found
with
the
disease
upon
them,
and
gave
to
the
lot
(about
100
head)
a
pound
of
pulverized
alum
in
some
mill-feed
each
day
for
two
weeks,
by which
time
all
remain-
ing
seemed
healthy.
Out
of
twenty-two
drenched
with
one
pint
of the
solution
to
each,
administered
with
the
assistance
of
a
rope
behind
the
tusks,
and
a
horn
with
the
small
end
sawed
off',
I
lost
five
head,
and,
with
the
exception
of
two,
the
remaining
seventeen
appear
to
have
entirely
recovered
to
a
healthy,
thrifty
condition.
Some
of
those
which
have
recovered
were
in
the
last
stage,
vomiting,
with
red
blotches
on
the
skin,
and
bleeding
at
the
nose,
which
I
have
always
considered
the
last
stage
of
the
disease.
The
above
is
but
little
cost,
and,
if
it
is
as
successful
as
with
me,
is
well
worth
the
trial."