DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF PIGS. 341 



DIARRH(EA. 



This is the very opposite of constipation. 



Causes. — ^It is generally caused trom a sudden change in tha 

 food; from eating something that is frozen; or from excitement 

 by being chased. 



Symptoms.- -The manure runs away like water; the pig is 

 dull and refuses to eat its food, but is very thirsty and greedy to 

 drink. 



Treatment.^Change the food, and give a gruel drink of 



Dry Flour 1 teacupful. 



Conitnon Soda 1 tablespoonful. 



Ginger 1 " 



Mix in a half pail of luke warm water and give as a drink 

 three times a day. The above is the proportion to give six 

 small pigs. In a case where it is in young pigs sucking a sow, 

 -give the sow 



Dry Flour 4 teacupful. 



Common Soda 1 teaspoonful. 



Ginger 1 " 



Mix in a half pail of luke warm water and give three times a 

 day. As well as the above treatment, keep the pigs warm, dry 

 and clean, and they will soon get all right. 



WORMS. 



This is mostly seen in young pigs. 



Symptoms. — The pig eats plenty but does not seem to thrive 

 well, and sometimes you will see small worms pass away in the 

 manure. 



Treatment. — Give a handful of charcoal and hardwood a«hes 

 in the food twice a week; also give half a teaspoonful of sulphur 

 for each pig twice a day in their food and this will generally kll 

 the worms. 



TURNING OUT OF THE RECTUM OR BACK BOWEL. 



Causes. — This is generally caused in young pigs by getting 

 dry food to eat, and the bowels become costive, and while 

 straining to pass manure, it turns the back bowel out; or where 

 pigs rise on their hind legs with their front feet upon the front of 

 the pen every time you go to feed them; or from going to jump a 

 low fence and getting caught, and while lying with the belly 

 over the fence, the back bowel becomes turned out. 



Symptoms. — There is a bulging out of the back bowel from 

 half the size of a hen's egg to even larger than a hen's egg, 



