Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04

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wheat flour.
Pigs should be castrated a week or so be-
fore they are weaned
Nothing in the management of pigs is more
important than to provide a trough for the
sucking pigs, separate from the SOW, and to
commence feeding them when two or three
weeks old
Many of the diseases of pigs are contagious
and the instant a pig is observed to be sick it
should be removed to a separate pen; and it
would be well to regard this single case of
sickness us an indication that something is
wrong in the general management of the
pigs. Clean out the pens, scald the troughs,
scrape out all decaying matter from under
and around them, sprinkle chloride of lime
about the pen. or. what is probably better,
carbolic acid. Dry earth is n cheap and cx-
c%ellent disinfectant. Use it literally ut all
times. Whitewash the walls of the pens
wash all the inside and outside woodwork,
troughs, plank floors, &c. with crude petro-
leum. 1t is the cheapest and best antiseptic
yet discovered.
TO destroy lice, wash the pig all over with
crude petroleum, and the next day give him
u thorough washing with warm soft water
and soap, with the free use of Il brush.
In the absence of anything better, W. use
petroleum for all diseases of the skin in pigs,
flesh wounds, &c.
For II mild blister in cases of cold, or
threatened Inflammation Of the lungs, To-
ment the body, under the f~orelegs, for IN
hour or so with cloths wrung out of hot wa
ter, and rub on n little saleratus or soda &C.
casionally during the operation, to soften the
skin, then apply petroleum. This will then
act us n mild %irritant, and heal ut the same
time.
Mango, or itch. is caused by n minute in
sect, which is probably Matched from eggs
ndhering to the skin. There is no way of
curing it, or OF preventing its spread, except
by killing the insects and their eggs-not
only on the pigs themselves, but also on the
sides of the pens, posts, or anything that the
diseased pig rubs against. To destroy them
on the woodwork, nothing is probably so
good as petroleum, and though we have not
tried it, we have little doubt that it would
also cure the pigs, especially if applied be-
fore the disease has made much Roadway.
The disease usually manifests itself on the
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inside the forelegs. At first, small red
blotchcs or pimples appear, and these grad
ually spread us the insects multiply and bur-
row under the skin. 1t is well to give sui
phur and other cooling medicine in the food,
but the real aim must be to kill the insects
by the prompt and continued use of carbolic
acid, petroleum, or a strong decoctien of to-
l bacco. Solutions of arsenic and corrosive
sublimate are used in severe cases, but are
dangerous articles to place in the hands OF
inexperienced persons. "Unguentum," OF
Z mercurial ointment, is eficacious, but is not
g easily applied.
From the investigations of DR.. Thudicum
and others, it is now clearly proved that
= measles in pigs are caused by small e%ntozoa
D or internal parasites, which are embryo
S forms of the common tapeworm. Measly
4. pork is IL fruitful source of tapeworms, and is
! unfit for human food. We can not too earn
estly caution our readers against breeding
from pigs that have ever been affected with
measles.
Rheumatism is not an uncommon disease
especially in Thoroughbred pigs, when KEEP
in damp sites, or furnished with rich fooc
= one week, and poor food the next, or kept il
n warm, ill-ventilated sty, and then exposed
to storms, and otherwise badly treated. The
remedy is Rochelle salts, good treatment
and liberal feeding. Give the salts for tw'
Il or three days, say one ounce u day for II lU'