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remain lean, stunted in their growth, or never become really 

 healthy animals. 



Treatment. Like all diseases of this class, preventive treat- 

 ment is far cheaper and in every way more satisfactory than 

 medical treatment. Our great aim should be, therefore, to pre- 

 vent the spread of infectious diseases. Every swine raiser should 

 use the utmost precautions to prevent the introduction of these 

 plagues into his herd. As soon as the hogs are found to be af- 

 fected with hog cholera or swine plague, the lot or pens where 

 they have been confined should be disinfected by dusting plenti- 

 fully with dry, air slacked lime, or by sprinkling with a 5 per 

 cent solution of crude carbolic acid. The animals should then 

 all be moved into new quarters. If possible, the sick and appa- 

 rently well should be separated before they are moved and put 

 into different lots. This is not essential, but an aid to the treat- 

 ment. Keep them in dry lots or pens where there is no mud, and 

 above all no stagnant water. It is also advisable to keep these 

 lots disinfected with carbolic acid or air slacked lime. 



The medical treatment must be begun as soon as possible, and 

 the following formula will be found as good as any: 



Wood charcoal 1 pound. 



Sulphur 1 pound. 



Sodium chloride 2 pounds. 



Sodium bicarbonate 2 pounds. 



Sodium hyposulphite 2 pounds. 



Sodium sulphate 1 pound. 



Black antimony 1 pound. 



Mix. 



These ingredients should be completely pulverized and thor- 

 oughly mixed. The dose of this mixture for a 200-pound hog 

 is a large tablespoonful given once a day. For feed, corn alone 



