230 One Thousand Questions in Agriculture 



They may be affected with a chronic type of cholera, and this 

 should be determined by some one who can see the hogs. Make a 

 general cleaning up of the hogs and quarters, using a dip and re- 

 peating in ten days. Hogs have a true mange as well as other 

 animals. A change of feed may also be needed, depending on what 

 is being fed and how the hogs are managed. Green alfalfa pasture 

 with a moderate feed of shorts or middlings of wheat and ground 

 barley made into a slop would be a good ration. Evidently there 

 is some digestive trouble here, and a dose of croton oil (3 drops) 

 mixed in a teaspoonful of raw linseed oil for each hog would be 

 beneficial. Charcoal, ashes, salt and a little epsom salts would be 

 of benefit to tone the digestion. The oil should be carefully mixed 

 in the slop. 



Pigs Out of Condition. 



Of a litter of pigs weaned about a month several of them have itchy 

 scabs on their legs, cars and noses, and those hainng white feet show 

 reddish spots through the hoofs. They did not get it until after they 

 were weaned. They are fed on soaked whole barley and have alfalfa 

 pasture. 



Put the pigs on a slop composed of wheat middlings and barley 

 ground fine, with the hulls removed, and milk, or, in the absence 

 of milk about 8 or 10 per cent of meat meal to which add some good 

 stock food. Dip them with some standard brand of dip or apply 

 crude oil to be sure that they were free from lice, fleas, etc. Give 

 them good, clean, comfortable sleeping quarters and trust to nature 

 to do the rest. 



Paralysis of Sow. 



During the last few days one of my sows appears to be paralysed in 

 her hind quarters and now cannot use her hind legs at all. She is about 

 a year old and is due to farrow her first litter in and about six weeks. 



It is paralysis due to advanced pregnancy. Give 4 ounces castor 

 oil and 4 ounces olive oil. She will recover after parturition. 



Rickets in Hogs. 



A fine boar, i6 months old, weight about 380 pounds, well built, with 

 little surplus fat, until lately has been very thrifty, but appears to be 

 losing control over his legs. Can't step over the smallest stick without 

 falling forward and acts like a foundered animal. He carries his back 

 rather arching since this trouble came on. During my absence from home 

 a hired man gave this boar a good beating ivith a pick handle, and it 

 appears to have been the beginning of his troubles. 



This disease is Osteo Rachitis (rickets). The abuse has prob- 

 ably aggravated the symptoms. This condition is due to a lack of 

 hardening principles in the bones. Give 4 ounces of cod liver oil 

 daily and plenty of lime water to drink. It will be all right to 

 use him for breeding when he recovers. In addition to good food 

 and pure water give daily a handful of a mi.xture of principally 

 ashes and burned barley (charcoal) with the usual addition of salt, 



