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must be exercised or the animal will bleed to death. 

 The operative wound should receive the proper after- 

 treatment. 



Botryomyces 



The Botryomyces ascoformans also infects castration 

 wounds in swine. This condition is very common in 

 certain localities at some seasons. It is of a chronic, 

 insidious nature. The castration wounds may heal and 

 be apparently normal, the first indication of the condition 



Fig. 6. SCIBBHOUS CORD DUE TO BOTRYOMYCOTIC 

 INFECTION. 



being a slight enlargement of the scrotum. The enlarge- 

 ment persists and gradually increases in size until it is 

 quite large; in some instances these masses may attain 

 the size of a football. On examination of the affected 

 pig a rather dense mass can be outlined, apparently 

 adhered to the substructures but not attached to the 

 skin unless the wound has failed to heal. These masses 

 are found to be encapsulated with dense fibrous con- 

 nective tissues. On sectioning the growth, many centers 

 are found from one-half to two . inches in diameter, 



