DISEASES OF ANIMALS 175 



or six days until they die. The sows' food consists of skim milk, 

 dairy chop food, and rice middlings. 



Your pigs became infected with the organism Bacillus Coli communis. 

 Wash the sows' udders with a 2 per cent solution liquor cresolis com- 

 positus once a day. Disinfect your premises. Give pigs one tablet Abbott's 

 sulphocarbolates compound once daily. It would also be a good plan to 

 cut down the sows' rations considerably. 



Pigs Lame From Foot Rot. 



Some of my pigs get lame in their hind feet. They seem to walk on 

 the back part of their feet with the toes sticking up off of the ground. 

 Then a few days later the ankles get scabby. The hoofs turn a reddish 

 purple, like a mashed thumb nail, before they get lame. I notice some 

 with their noses peeling off, but they still have good appetites. 



Your pigs have foot rot caused by the organism bacillus necrophorus, 

 which lives in mud and water. Put animals in dry surroundings. Make 

 a trough deep enough so that when standing in it, the affected parts 

 of the feet will be covered. Make animal stand in this containing a 2 l / 2 

 per cent cresol solution for five or ten minutes. Take -a swab and wipe 

 off their noses with this solution. Afterwards apply pine tar to the 

 affected parts. 



Mangy Pigs. 



Tell me a good remedy for a kind of mange in pigs? Their skins 

 seem to get thick and wrinkled and itchy, the hair standing straight 

 and mostly falls out. 



This is mange. Make a dipping tank and dip these pigs twice a 

 week in a 2 per cent solution liquor cresolis compositus covered with 

 y^ inch crude oil twice a week. 



Pigs Smut-Poisoned. 



Several young pigs lose the use of their hindquarter, are weak 

 across the back, try to get up and roll around. When they finally succeed 

 in getting up, go staggering off, and if excited roll over some more. 

 Am feeding ground barley that has smut in it. Can that affect them? 



This condition is due to poisoning from the smut on the barley. 

 Young pigs are very susceptible to forage poisoning of many kinds. 



Foxtail in Pigs' Eyes. 



The eyes of pigs, ten weeks old, are swollen and have sores around 

 them. Four weeks ago one of the pigs got a foxtail in one eye) 

 and I pulled it out. I cannot see any more foxtails. 



Some of the foxtail remains. Remove the cause and bathe several 

 times daily with boric acid solution. 



