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Symptoms. Stomach pains, scratching extremities, rubbing up against 

 posts and barns or buildings while giving a pleasant feeling is also done in 

 trying to rid the intestines of the clinging worms. Often worms are passed 

 in the feces and clusters come forth. 



Treatment. Cleanse the bowels with cathartics and injections and then 

 give a tea made from boiled pumpkin seeds. This is one of the finest remedies. 

 The whole system seems to respond and practically every worm is removed. 

 Then the proper thing is to keep everything clean. Tobacco is given by many 

 farmers while salt and ashes are kept in the pen by others. Turpentine added 

 to the swill is always recognized as one of the surer reliefs for worms in all 

 forms and all animals. A teaspoonful in a gallon of liquid food will do good. 

 Give several times a week, is the usual statement. 



From 5 to 8 grains of calomel and 3 to 5 grains of santonin for every hun- 

 dred pounds live weight. Make a powder of this mixture large enough for 

 from ten to fifteen hogs. Divide the herd into bunches of this number. Place 

 ground feed in a trough and sprinkle one of the powders over the feed. Dose 

 the hogs in the morning after keeping them off feed over night. A remedy 

 for worms in hogs is to feed nothing for one day and then to a 100-pound 

 hog give a tablespoonful of a mixture of half turpentine and half raw linseed 

 oil or castor oil. The dose for smaller pigs should be proportionately reduced. 

 Always keep a mixture of wood ashes and salt where the hogs can get it, using 

 about a half bushel of ashes to five pounds of salt. Cob ashes will do just as 

 well. 



Wounds and Cuts. 



Apply one teaspoonful of carbolic acid in a teacupful of water to the 

 wound or cut several times daily, or put one teaspoonful of coal-tar disin- 

 fectant in a teacupful of water and apply to the wounded part each day. 



Yellows Jaundice. 



The urinary organs of a pig may become affected and the bile becomes 

 distributed in the system, causing poor action and impure blood. 



Symptoms. Yellow appearance of the pig ; poor appetite ; sluggishness ; 

 poor bowel action and vomiting. 



Treatment. Hot vinegar cloths over the kidneys or hot water containing 

 soda and ginger will be found good. 



Give doses of from three to four ounces of linseed oil to open the bowels 

 and from 3 to 6 grains of calomel to keep them open and to act upon the liver. 



