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Treatment. — Wash the pig well with creolin water, 

 which is a sure, cheap and simple remedy. The strength of 

 creolin to be used is two tablespoonfuls to a pint of water. 

 Rub the creolin water in all over the pig with a stiff brush. 

 It generally takes two washings to make a complete cure. 

 The second application should be put on about a week after 

 the first. As well as this, clean the pen thoroughly, shake 

 lime around the floor, and put fresh, clean straw in for 

 them to lie on. 



12. Hog Cholera. 



This is an infectious blood disease, and is sometimes 

 called anthrax. It is noticed to break out in herds of hogs 

 all over the country. 



Symptoms. — The first symptoms are dullness, dooping 

 of the head and ears, loss of appetite, and the pig goes away 

 by itself to lie down. It seems very feverish, hot, and in 

 some cases will lie quiet and die very suddenly, while in 

 other cases, as the symptoms advance, it has pains in the 

 bowels, will lie on its side, moan with pain, then jump up, run 

 around, squeal and grunt in a very painful manner. The 

 pig at times gets easy spells and becomes quiet. If you 

 catch and examine it you will find that the skin of the belly, 

 thighs, front legs, throat, and around the nose are of a purple 

 color, and in some cases on account of the high fever, the 

 skin broken out in a rash. In the last stages of the disease 

 there is diarrhoea, and the manure which is very thin, is of 

 a black color and has a very bad smell. The pig rapidly 

 loses strength, gets a cough, begins breathing very heavy, 

 and in a few hours is so weak that it can hardly stand. In 

 some cases it dies in from six to ten hours after being smit- 

 ten with the disease, while in other cases it lives for a few 

 days. The rash that comes out on the skin soon causes it to 

 slough, and the skin drops off in places, giving the animal 

 a bad appearance. Although this is a very fatal disease and 

 most of the pigs die that are affected with it, occasionally 

 cases get better when the treatment is taken in time. 



Treatment. — As soon as any of the pigs are noticed sick, 

 separate the sick ones from the others and put them in a 

 dry, clean pen. Give the following medicine to each, using 



