56 AGRICULTURE. 



from its bed. A constipated condition of the bowels 

 changes to diarrhoea as the disease progresses, and this 

 results in a rapid loss of flesh. Dissection generally shows 

 the lungs to be inflamed, the spleen enlarged, or the 

 lining of the large intestine covered with numerous ulcers. 

 Prevention. — To protect hogs from attacks of these dis- 

 eases it is necessary to observe the following recommen- 

 ■dations: The hogs should not be watered at running 

 streams, as the germs are readily carried by these. Per- 

 sons coming from infected districts should not be allowed 

 to go near your hogs, and you should not go among your 

 neighbors' hogs if they are sick. When other hogs are 

 brought to your farm, assume that they are infected and 

 keep thexTi away from yours at least for six weeks. Observe 

 as much cleanliness as possible in regard to food and sur- 

 roundings. Feed a mixture of foods in a sloppy or soft con- 

 dition, and withhold heavy grain feeding. Disinfect the 

 quarters of the hogs by sprinkling liberally with a five per 

 cent solution (by volume) of carbolic acid, and use a two per 

 cent solution of the same for washing the hogs. 



Treatment. — The hogs showing any of the symptoms 

 described should at once be separated from the others, and 

 put in cheaply constructed quarters, so that the latter may 

 be burned when no longer required. The well hogs should 

 be removed to disinfected quarters. Give all the hogs the 

 following mixture, recommended by Dr. Salmon, Chief of 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry: 



Wood charcoal i lb. 



Sulfur I " 



Salt 2 lbs. 



Baking-soda 2 " 



Glauber's salts. i lb. 



Sodium hyposulfite 2 lbs. 



Antimony sulfid i lb. 



This should be given in soft food in the proportion of a 

 teaspoonful daily to a two hundred pound hog. Remove 

 all refuse from the pens in which the infected hogs were 

 kept, and dig out the old soil, put in fresh earth, disinfect 



