MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 50I 



" The tails of young pigs frequently drop or rot off^ which is 

 "attended with no further disadvantage to the animal than the 

 " loss of the member. The remedies are, to give a little brimstone 

 " or sulphur in the food of the dam ; or rub oil or grease daily on 

 " the affected parts. It may be detected by a roughness or scab- 

 " biness at the point where separation is likely to occur. 



'■'•Bleeding, — The most convenient mode is from an artery just 

 " above the knee, on the inside of the fore-arm. It may be drawn 

 " more copiously from the roof of the mouth. The flow of blood 

 " may usually be stopped by applying a sponge or cloth with cold 

 " water, 



" The diseases of swine, though not numerous, are formidable, 

 " and many of them soon become fatal. They have not been the 

 " subject of particular scientific st;udy, and most of the remedies 

 " applied are rather the result of casual or hap-hazard suggestion 

 " than of well-digested inference from long-continued and accu- 

 " rate observation." 



The cardinal principles of successful pig raising are, to breed 

 only from sound and healthy parents of remote relationship, to 

 keep the animals in dry, warm, and cleanly quarters, to feed regu- 

 larly sufficiently and with varying food, and to remove as early as 

 possible any diseased or weakly animal from the herd. 



It is rare to take up an agricultural paper without coming 

 across a recipe for the treatment of some one of the diseases to 

 which poultry is subject ; and in almost all cases the recommenda- 

 tions given claim to be based on the successful experience of the 

 writers. Probably there is no branch of the comprehensive sub- 

 ject of the treatment of the diseases to which farm stock is liable, 

 on which so much has been written, and in which so much uncer- 

 tainty still exists. It would be easy to write an interesting chapter 

 for this book on the subject of the different ailments of poultry, 

 and the different recommendations for their treatment. As the 

 most comprehensive and lucid statement concerning the manage- 



