The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-02-12

Sodium hyposulphite.
Sodium sulphate. .................-..
.tntimOny sulshide, black antimony.
These ingredients should be completely
pulverized and thoroughly mixed.
The dose of this mixture is large
tablespoonful for each 200 pounds weight
of hogs to be treated. and it should be
given only once day. When hogs are
effected with these diseases they should not
be fed on corn alone, but they should have
at least once day soft feed made by mix
mo bran and middlings, or mlddllngs 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 mixture,
it increases their appetite, and when they
once taste of food with which it has been
mixed they will 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 drench
inc 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 pouch, into which the medi-
cine may be slowly poured. 1t will flow
from the cheek into the mouth and when
the hog finds out what it is it will stop
squealing and swallow In our expert
ments hogs which were 50 sick that they
wouId eat nothing have commenced to cat
very soon after getting Il dose Of the remedy,
and have steadily improved until they APP
peared perfectly well.
This medicine may also be used as ii
preventive Of these diseases, and for this
purpose should be put in the feed of the
whole herd Care should of course be oh
served to see that each animal receives his
proper share. In cases where it has been
given fair trial. it has apparently cured
most of the animals which were sick and
has stopped the progress Of the disease in
the herds. 1t also appears to be an ex
cellent appetizer and stimulant of the pro
cess Of digestion and assimilation, and
when given to unthrifty hogs it increases
the appetite, causes them to take on flesh.
and assume thrifty appearance.
Success or failure with this remedy de-
ponds largely upon the manner in which it
is used. If it is Improperly administered
on the hogs left ont in the cold storms and
compelled to remain day and night in mud
six inches or foot deep, under the neces-
sity of searching through this mud to find
an ear of corn in order to get anything to
eat, the farmer might as we'll save his
money and let his hogs die, as nothing
which we have been able to find will save
them under such conditions. If, on the
other hand the sick animals can be made
reasonably comfortable, and given soft,
easily digested food to eat the medicine. of
which we have just given the formula may
be used with confidence that it will give
good returns for its cost and the trouble of
its administration.
The question now arises, What DISPOSE
ton should be made of the hogs during
treatment, and what sanitary measures
should be adopted in addition to the medical
treatment When hogs are first found to
be affected with hog cholera or swine
plague the lot of pens where they have
been confined should be disinfected by
busting plentifully with dry, air-slacked
lime, or by sprinkling with 5 per cent.
solution of crude carbolc acid. The ami
mails should then all be moved to new
quarters. If possibly the sick and appar-
emily well should be separated before they
are moved and then put into different lots.
This is not essential, but it is an aid to
the treatment. The hogs should be kept
in dry lots, or pens, where there is no mud,
and above all, no stagnant water. 1t is
weR to keep these lots disinfected by the
free use of air-slacked lime or carbolic acid,
IF any hogs die during the progress of
the outbreak their carcasses should be ina
mediately burned or deeply buried, and
the places where they have lain or the
ground over which they are dragged should
be disinfected with carbolic acid or lime ac-
cording to the method already mentioned.