The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-08-17
Pounds.

Sodium bicarbonate. ....................2
Sodium hyposulphite.
Sodium sulphate.
Anthony sulphide. .....................l
These ingredients should be completely
pulverized and thoroughly mixed.
The dose of this mixture is a large table
spoonful for each 200 pound weight of hogs to
be treated, and it should be given only once
day. When hogs are affected with these
diseases they should not be fed ON corn alone,
but they should have at least once day soft
feed, made by mixing bran and middlingS,
or middlings and corn meal or ground oats
and corn, or crushed wheat with hot water.
and then stirring into this the proper quantity
of the medicine. Hogs are fond of this mix
ture, it increases their appetite, and when
they once taste of food with which it has been
mixed they viii eat it though nothing else
would tempt them.
Animals that are very sick and that will not
come to the feed should be drenched with the
medicine shaken up with water. Great care
should be exercised in drenching hogs or they
will be suffocated. Do not turn the hog on
its back to drench it. but pull the cheek away
from the teeth so as to form a pouch, into
which the medicine may be slowly poured.
1t will flow from the cheek INTO the mouth,
and when the hog finds ont what it is it will
stop squealing and swallow. In our expert.
ments hogs which were so sick that they would
eat nothing have commenced to eat very soon
after getting dose of the remedy, and have
steadily improved until they appeared per
fectly well.
This medicine may also be used as a pre-
veutive of these diseases, and,for this purpose
should be put in the feed of the whole herd.
Care should. of course, be observed to see
that each animal receives its proper share.
In cases where it has been given a fair trial.
it has apparently cured most of the animals
which were sick and has stopped the progress
of the disease in the herds. Ii also appears
to be an excellent appetizer aud stimulant of
the processes Of digestion and assimiationr
and when given to unthritty hogs 1t increases
the appetite. causes them to take on flesh and
assume a thrifty appearance.
Success or failure with this remedy depends
largely upon the manner in which it is used.
If the sick animals can be made reasonably
comfortable. and be given soft, easily-digest
ed food TO eat. the medicine may he used
with confidence that it viii give good returns
for its cost and the trouble of administering.
In nearly all cases there Is more or less in
fammation Of the internal organs. and par
iicularly of the stomach and intestines-
therefore. the animals should be kept dry and
comfortable and from drafts, and the food he
such as can be easily digested.
When the disease appears the pens or lot
where the animals have been kept should be
disinfected BY busting plentifully with DRY.
unslaked lime or By sprinkling with Eve
per cent. solution of earhohc acid The ani.
mails should be moved to new quarters, the
sick and well being kept separate. The hogs
should be where there is no mud, and. espe-
cialiv. no staguant water. These lots or pens.
too. should also be sprinkled with the lime
and carbolic acid.
During this treatment the hogs gain
marked degree Of immunity. No doubt this
Is the result of attacks Of the disease from
which they recover. This recovery i in spite
Of the continued infection Of the premises, aud
even though the hogs which have gone through
the outbreak are apparently wen and thriving,
new hogs added to the herd are liable 70 ~
attacked. For this reason five or six months
should he allowed to pass before any neW
hogs are purchased and brought on the prem
ises or before any are sold to be put among
other lots Of hogs. Young pigs born under
such conditions jn some eases are ahle 20 re-
sist the Infection while in other eases they
mas suffer severely or die.
II any hogs die during the progress Of the
outbreak their earcaSses should b. immedl.
atey burned o. deeply buried. and the places
where they have lain or the ground over
which they are dragged should be disiniecied
with carbo8c aea1 OF tiaat asN"t'ahs - s"e
method already meniloned
The swine grower should use every eiioFi g
prevent the Introduction q ne contagios upon
his premises. II he purchases hogs from
distance OF sends his own sniInals for exhlhi-
ton af the fairs be should insist upon their
being transported in clean ears. which have
been disinfecied il they have previously car
ried swine When mes hogs are brought apoa
the farm ar when his owa return from exhibit
ton, they should be rlgldiy quaranianed afld
not allowed 10 come ia contact with the other
hogs on the farm for at least six weeks
Hogs should not ~ allowed 10 run Il large
IN the vicinity Of railroads over which sSine
are transported Infected hog are frequently
droppiugs from the cars in wkieh they arr
carried to scatter the contAgion along the rail.
road for The whole distance they travel
When these diseases appear np0n q neigh.
boring farm precautions should re adopted TO
nrsarenf the introduction Of che r0utaEidn.
IA one should 81 anon the 6plds or into the
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-, ~ s,nan La gra l.ss .ahiee. 4, infection
rrhea eholer, = n tte neisI,,rhe,,d than those
ssb;eh arr aIloned III ran AZ large or Is the
fields. II is, consequently. advisable, When
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