148 Lung Worms 



Ginger, 8 pounds 

 Powdered gentian, 8 pounds 

 Sulphur, 8 pounds 

 Salt petre, 8 pounds 

 Resin, 8 pounds 

 Capsicum, 4 pounds 

 Linseed oil meal, 40 pounds 

 Powdered charcoal, 20 pounds 

 Salt (sodium chloride) 20 pounds 

 Wheat bran, 100 pounds 



Feed 3 rounding tablespoonfuls once or twice daily for each 200 

 pounds of live weight. 



Where the formulae is printed on the can and the amount of each is 

 not given, it will be found that they often contain many of the elements 

 indicated in one of the last two formulaes. 



LUNG WORMS 



; i? ' (Cough) (Quinsy) ' 



This disease more often develops in the late summer and early falL 

 The hog probably breathes the egg of the lung worm into the lungs 

 along with dust partieles and the worm develops in the air passages and 

 the lungs. The egg of this worm seems to have the ability to live for 

 months under ordinary field conditions. Lung worms sometimes prove 

 fatal by suffocation due to the accumulation of mucous in the air pas- 

 sages but a high per cent of the cases recover. 



When a hog is effected with lung worm, often a form of irritating 

 bronchitis develops and a peculiar harsh cough devleops which can be 

 heard 200 or more yards away. To date, there has been developed no 

 cure for the trouble. About all one can do is to keep the hogs out of 

 Jniected pastures in the spring and early summer, since it takes the egg 

 several weeks to develop into a worm. Creolin or coal tar steam vapor 

 will give temporary relief. Sulphur fumes, or burning of feathers in a^ 

 closed pen Is ^Isq fsaid tg be beneficial. 



