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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Hog: His Habits, Breeds, Management, and Diseases, With Especial Reference to the Disease Called Hog Cholera, Together With a Chapter on Trichina After many years of study and labor, and much perplexity, the author offers the results of his experience and investigations to the public. He has used his best endeavors to make the work interesting to the reader, by going somewhat at length into the history of the hog; and, as he hopes, profitable to the raiser by calling his attention to the proper management of this valuable animal, both in health and in disease. Although much has been written on the subject of breeds and breeding, the author has also given his observations and experience on the subject, in the hope that they may be found of service to the reader. But the chief object of the work in its inception was to give a thorough and complete account of that terrible disease amongst the swine known as "hog Cholera." On this subject great labor, time, and expense has been bestowed. To the investigation of this disease many weary hours of study have been given, in order to determine the nature of the disease and the true causes producing it. Great painstaking and many tedious experiments, under many discouragements, were found necessary. The author believes that he has finally discovered the true sources of this dreaded malady. He believes that if his instructions are faithfully carried into practice that hog cholera will become a rarity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.