996 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Mix as a powder, and give in the food. Kub the animal thoroughl^^ 

 with soft soap, and at the end of an hour clean well with warm rain 

 water. AVhen dry, prepare the following; 



No. 17. 1 Pint train oil, 



2 Drachms oil of tar, 



1 Draclim petroleum, 



Flowers of sulphur to form a thick paste. 



Rub this thoroughly in, and let it remain three days. Then wash 

 thoroughly Avith strong soap suds, and if the difficulty is not removed, 

 repeat the application of the ointment. The animals must be changed to 

 perfectly clean quarters, with clean bedding. Burn all old bedding, and 

 paint the floor cracks, and every surface outside and in, with quick-lime, 

 slaked with carbolic acid, one part to one hundred of water ; or get the 

 carbolic li(juor from the nearest gas-works, and slake with that. 



XI. Lice. 



There would seem no reason why swine should l)c infested with lice. 

 If they be suspected, examine the hogs, and when 

 dry, after washing with soft soap and water, 

 sponge freely v/ith crude petroleum, and give 

 daily, for some days, ^ drachm of copperas in the 

 food. If any lice remain, apply an ointment of 

 Scotch snuff and lard to the infested parts. 



XII. Diarrhoea. 



Young i^igs are often taken with diarrhoea, gen- 

 erally during the first ten days after birth. The 

 difficulty lies in the milk of the sow, either from bad 

 food or other disability. 



What to do. — Give good, nourishing food, of 

 which sound grain is the basis ; place a mixture of powdered charcoal and 

 salt where the pigs and sow may freely take it. Prepare the following : 



No. 18. 2 Pounds powdered fcenugreek seed, 



2 Pounds powdered anise seed, 

 2 Pounds powdered chalk, 



1 Pound powdered gentian, 



2 Ounces cai-bonate of soda. 



Mix, and give a tablespoonful to the sow every time she is fed. 

 Xm. Leprosy. 



We have received accounts of hogs affected with "hog cholera" — every 

 disease for which no better name is known is now so called — in which 

 pimples and blisters appear about tke mouth and eyes, prostration ensues 



HiKMATOPINDS. 



Blood-sucking' louse of the 



