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toms you describe, however, are characteristic. One oleander top will 

 usually produce death in cattle and horses. There is no specific antidote 

 and cases must be treated symptomatically. 



For Pigs With a Cold. 



My pigs cough a little and run at the nose. They seem in good 

 health, are on natural pasture and forage practically all day, and eat 

 heartily of the grain feed twice a day. 



For the colds which your pigs have, give the following: Quinine 

 sulphate \ l /t drachms, pulverized nux vomica 1 drachm-, pulverized ammo- 

 nium carbonate 2 drachms, pulverized camphor 1 drachm, pulverized 

 potassium nitrate, 3 drachms, pulverized gentian root 3 drachms. Make 

 this into twelve powders and give one powder twice a day in molasses. 



Coal Screenings for Hogs. 



Are coal screenings good for hogs? Can you suggest anything 

 better? 



Coal screenings are good for hogs. A better form of carbon for 

 pigs, however, is charcoal. 



Pig Breathes Hard. 



/ have a pig two months old that breathes very hard. His nose is\ 

 some swollen and a faint odor comes from it. The pig is still sucking and 

 eating skim milk and rolled barley; is in good form except a rough coat. 



Your pig has a foreign body lodged in his nostrils. Remove it, care- 

 fully using a piece of baling wire with a ball of cotton twisted on the 

 end. Turn and twist until substance catches on the cotton. After treat- 

 ment would consist of syringing out nostril with 50 per cent solution 

 peroxide of hydrogen. 



Intestinal Catarrh. 



A pig about four months old has but little control of his hindquarters. 

 He eats well, but does not digest well, for he has diarrhoea. He has been 

 in this condition for some time. 



The hog has gastro-intestinal catarrh. Feed but once daily and give 

 only light food such as bran mash. Give two-ounce doses of epsom salts 

 twice a week and use the following: Bismuth subnitrate 4 ounces, 

 zinc sulphocarbolate 4 ounces, soda bicarbonate 8 ounces, iron sulphate 

 6 ounces. Mix together and give two ounces twice daily. 



For Protruding Rectum. 



The inside of the rectum o\f my three-months-old pig protrudes like 

 a telescope till it projects two or three inches from rump of the pig. 

 The pig has been this way for a week. I used carbolic acid as a dis- 



