DISEASES OF SWINE 169 



Treatment : The best and safest treatment is to pro- 

 vide clean sleeping quarters, avoid overcrowding in 

 dusty, dirty sheds, especially during cold weather. Pigs 

 affected with cold in the head should be fed on laxative 

 food, sucli as boiled carrots, potatoes, apples, hot wheat 

 bran mashes and steamed rolled oats. 



Medical Treatment: Confine the affected hogs to a 

 shed, close windows and doors and any large cracks; 

 then compel them to inhale steam from the following 

 mixture : Turpentine, eight ounces ; Pine Tar, one pint ; 

 Water, two gallons. Place in tin receptacle in center of 

 shed and beat the above solution by adding hot bricks 

 or stones to the mixture occasionally. Compel the hogs 

 to inhale this steam for at least thirty minutes twice a 

 day. Give Chlorate of Potash in twenty grain doses 

 three times a day in feed or drinking water. This treat- 

 ment is very successful if the inflammation has not 

 extended to tbe lungs. 



DIARRHOEA IN YOUNG PIGS 



(Scours) 



Cause: Decomposed foods, slops, etc., fed to the 

 mothers, causing them to give toxic milk. Poorly ven- 

 tilated, filthy, cold and damp pens, insufficient exercise, 

 lack of sunlight, raising pigs by hand or with other sow. 



Symptoms: Frequent movement of the bowels, the 

 passage being of a grayish-white color and the odor very 

 disagreeable. At this stage of the disease, reliable reme- 

 dies must be given or the pig will die very soon. 



The discharge from the bowels becomes very thin, the 

 tail and legs become soiled, loss of appetite, the pigs 

 become weak and dull, hair rough and it is difficult for 

 them to move about. In very young pigs, treatment is 

 of little value. 



Treatment : As Scours in pigs is a disease frequently 

 caused bv faultv food and insanitary surroundings, a 



