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throat. Give no food for one day, then give sulphur with each 

 meal. Cases of Colic are best treated with doses of warm water, 

 and injections of warm soap and water if possible. Rheuma- 

 tism, stiffness of the limbs, and unwillingness to move. Keep 

 the animal on boiled diet given warm. Wash the limbs and 

 shoulders in hot water, put him in a warm clean place and give 

 sulphur and cinnamon half and half, at each meal. Sometimes 

 the fore legs will be stiff from the stopping up of the little open- 

 ings on the inside of the fore legs. Scrub with soapsuds and a 

 corncob, until all scurf is removed, then soak in hot water, and 

 finish by rubbing in a little lard. Cleanliness. It may sound 

 strange to some when we say that cleanliness is necessary to the 

 health of the hog. N'o animal will keep cleaner if you will 

 give him a chance. He wallows in' mud, but would prefer clean 

 water, he roots in filth, but prefers fresh earth, turf, and leaves. 

 He eats, sleeps and evacuates in the same room, only when you 

 oblige him to. Give him a place to eat, a place to sleep, and 

 a place for rooting, etc., and he will keep his sleeping apartment 

 cleaner than any other domestic animal under the same circum- 

 stances. The hog should have a clean, dry, well floored, well 

 littered place to sleep. When in a closed room it should be 

 cleaned out every morning, just as much as the horse stable ; it 

 should have a slide at each end, so that it can be ventilated all 

 day. All the diseases of the hog are bred of the dirt, wet, filth 

 and bad air to which he is forced. The trough should be 

 washed down daily. Our plan for the piggery shows how these 

 things can be done. Castrating should be done at six or 

 seven weeks old, before the pigs are weaned. The operation is 

 the same as described for calves. Spaying is also done about 

 the same age, when the sow pigs are not required for breeders. 

 It is also done when sows are to be fatted. AVhen sows abort, 

 or protrude the womb after farrowing, or eat their pigs, thej 



