Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-09

slighteSt wheeZe, rattle, or other evidence of lungWorm infestation, it should be promptly moved to clean and dry quarters, where the picking up of infective lungWorm eggs will be reduced below the dan- ger point. The animal should be kept in such quarters until after it has made a complete recovery. It is important that patients be taken out badly infested pens as soon as possible, because the soon- CT the picking up of lungworm is stopped the better are the chances of recovery. Satisfactory types of hospital pens for foxes undergoing treatment are as follows:
 l. cleaning pens provided with heavy-guage oneinch mesh wire floors set about IS inches above ground.
 2. Concrete, asphalt, or board floor pens that are we'll drained and so made that they can be read fly and effectively cleaned
 3. Earth bottom pens placed on well-drained virgin soil preferably sand, or where the old contaminat- ed soil has been removed, safely disposed of, and replaced with clean sand or fine gravel.
 The hospital pens should be no less than F feet long and six feet wide; otherwise the patients will not be afforded a fair chance of keeping in good condition, much less recovering from the i'll effects of lungWornls. It is important also that they be kept scrupulously clean, particularly as regards fecal material. All manure should be thoroughly cleaned up each day and safely disposed of. During freezing weather earth bottom hos pital pens should, at monthly in tervals, be moved to clean ground or the soil in them changed.
 The patients should be placed on a palatable and nutritious diet and fed liberally. Good feeding is es- sential to building up resistance Apparently no one has yet succeed ed in finding a drug that is both safe and effective against lung worms in foxes or any other anil n1als. Every now and then there are persons who claim to have dis covered such remedy, but thor Ough Investigation invariably has demonstrated that these remedies are either ineffective or more in furious to the patient than to the parasite. Some of the so-called 1ungWOrm medicines sold for the treatment of foxes, as we'll as some that have been recommended for the treatment of other kinds of animals, have been tested at the U. s. Fur Animal Experiment Sta tion, and without exception all were found ineffective against lungworms in foxes. Moreover, the injection of drugs into the wind pipe or lungs is an exceedingly dangerous measure and is to be avoided by the average fox farmer
 Within the past few years there have come on the market two dis tinct types of tracheal swabs for the treatment of -infest- ed foxes. The first of these is a rather crude and unsatisfactory outfit consisting of heavy and long galvanized-wire handle on the end of which is fastened a small piece of sponge. This swab is passed down the windpipe through a small piece of rubber tubing and the windpipe swabbed out with the sponge.
 The other device is really com bination tracheal syringe and tra- cheal swab, the latter having 9 sponge capped brush on it's end When this instrument has been passed down the windpipe, the plunger of the syringe is inserted so as to protrude the brush from