FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 23 



Watch their condition in every respect. See that the hair or coat looks 

 healthy and bright, see that they are free from vermin or lice, which is a 

 source of great annoyance and often the cause of much unthriftiness. There 

 are many ways of getting rid of lice, but the easiest way where one is pre- 

 pared for it, is to run the entire herd through a dipping tank made for the 

 purpose using any of the various dips or Kerosene Emulsion. Crude 

 Petroleum is also a sure remedy but is rather expensive. To entirely rid a 

 herd that is lousy requires about three or four dippings, not over one week 

 apart for the reason that the nits or eggs of the louse are not killed by the 

 dip but hatch out in a very few days which necessitates another dipping at 

 once. 



See that your pigs are not coughing, if they are they probably have little 

 worms in the throat that can be removed in several ways. Take any of the 

 dips above mentioned, such as Moore's Hog Dip Zenoleum, etc., and use 

 about a pint of it in the crude form to a barrel of slop. Use it once a week 

 and you will never hear a pig cough. They will never be troubled with 

 worms of any kind. To keep the pigs digestion in good condition we feed 

 considerable charcoal. 



We shell our corn and burn the cobs in a pit made for the purpose and 

 they will leave the best of feed to eat the charcoal. A pen of six or eight 

 pigs will eat a bushel of charcoal at a time once a week. 



GOOD SANITARY MEASURES. 



' 'It is said that 'An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.' 

 Keep all feeding floors, sleeping pens and troughs clean. Use any good dis- 

 infectant and use it often. Air slaked lime is among the best as well as 

 zenoleum and other similar disinfectants. These can be purchased in any 

 quantity desired and in the crude form very much resembles a dark molasses , 

 and should be diluted with about fifty to seventy-five parts water. It thus 

 forms a milk white fluid which is not only a good disinfectant but a germi- 

 cide. It is used in hospitals, asylums, stables, etc. Sprinkle it over the 

 floors and feeding places, troughs, etc. If you are extensively engaged in 

 breeding of swine, do not let too many hogs or pigs herd together." They 

 will thrive better to be separated and kept in small numbers of about even 

 size. At home we usually have from one hundred and fifty to two hundred 

 pigs and hogs. We use a field of about twenty acres, divided in lots of 

 about one acre each. These lots were formerly sowed to clover and timothy 

 but have now become thickly sodded in blue grass. They are fenced with 

 a woven wire fence thirty-six inches high. Each lot contains a little house 

 8x8 feet in size, doubled walled and lined with building paper, with venti- 

 lator and everything complete for the comfort of the pigs in either warm or 

 cold weather. Each sow has one of these lots to herself with her litter, and 

 is kept there until the pigs are three months old and are weaned, at which 

 time the sow is removed to a larger pasture out of sight of the pigs, and the 

 youngsters are kept there until they are shipped out to market or to 

 breeders. 



You may say all these things are too much trouble, too much work but 

 remember we can not succeed in any line of business without work and lots 

 of it. To my mind compared to being a slave to a herd of dairy cows, the 

 bree'iing and caring for a large herd of well bred hogs, would be a continual 



