When was it published?

June 28, 1861 in Bellows Falls Times

Domestic News June 28, 1861

Bellows Falls Times

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Hog Lice, Tar Treatment, Swine Vermin, Southern Planter

Bellows Falls, Windham County, Vermont

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What is this article about?

A writer in the Southern Planter advises using a tar-smeared log to rid hogs of lice, noting that hogs will rub against it effectively, with 15 out of 96 hogs doing so in under 30 minutes.

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To Free Swine From Vermin.—A writer in the Southern Planter says:—"If your hogs are lousy, go to their rubbing place, or what is better, take a rough twelve foot log to their feeding place, and keep it constantly smeared with tar. No spaniel ever loved water better than a lousy hog loves tar, and he applies it himself, to the most invested spots on his body, so effectually that the lice speedily disappear. I have seen 15 out of 96 hogs smear themselves with tar in less than thirty minutes after they had access to it; and not one had ever known its use before."

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Agriculture

What keywords are associated?

Hog Lice Tar Treatment Swine Vermin Southern Planter

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lice speedily disappear

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If your hogs are lousy, go to their rubbing place, or what is better, take a rough twelve foot log to their feeding place, and keep it constantly smeared with tar. No spaniel ever loved water better than a lousy hog loves tar, and he applies it himself, to the most invested spots on his body, so effectually that the lice speedily disappear. I have seen 15 out of 96 hogs smear themselves with tar in less than thirty minutes after they had access to it; and not one had ever known its use before.