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ingredients and make the compound themselves at about one-sixth the 

 cost? 



The recipe for the tonic is given by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture as follows : Wood charcoal 1 pound, sulphur 1 pound, 

 common salt 2 pounds, sodium bicarbonate 2 pounds, sodium hyposulphite 

 2 pounds, sodium sulphate 1 pound, antimony sulphide 1 pound. These 

 ingredients should be completely pulverized and thoroughly mixed. The 

 dose is a large tablespoonful for each 200 pounds weight of hogs to 

 be treated. 



Water Puffs on Pigs. 



Three or four of a litter of eleven pigs two weeks old have puffs or 

 bags under the skin of their backs filled with a water-like substance. They 

 are well otherwise and have good appetites. 



These cysts appear at times on new-born animals probably due to 

 malformation. Open them at the lowest point so as to give drainage 

 and paint their inner lining with tincture of iodine once a day until 

 healed. 



Eating Hogs After Vaccination. 



When, after vaccination for hog cholera, can I kill with perfect 

 safety for bacon, lard, etc.? The hogs have always been perfectly healthy. 



Hogs are all right to kill and use for meat twenty-one days after 

 vaccination. At that time they have cleared up and will pass the 

 government inspection at abattoirs. 



Rheumatic Pigs. 



I have sixteen pigs, seven weeks old, in good health, get all the 

 skim milk and middlings they can eat, have dry houses to sleep in and 

 floored outside runs to keep them out of the mud. But one of the 

 pigs is lame in the left front and hind feet, and the others are begin- 

 ning to be so. 



Your pigs have rheumatism, to which swine are very liable. Be 

 sure to see there are no cracks in the floor or house through which 

 drafts may enter. Use good dry straw for bedding. Give each pig a 

 teaspoonful of epsom salts daily for three days, then 5 grains sodium 

 salicylate twice daily until lameness disappears. If pigs go off their 

 feed, discontinue treatment for a few days and then resume. 



Pigs With Inflammatory Rheumatism. 



We have some shoots five months of age that get weak in- the hind 

 legs; the second joint is more or less swollen; they eat and drink 

 always, but can't stand on the hind legs. They also vomit the food more 

 of less. When standing they continually tramp on their feet. 



Your pigs have inflammatory rheumatism. Provide good, dry 

 sleeping quarters for them, free from draughts. Paint the swollen 

 joints with tincture of iodine once daily. Give them internally one 

 five-grain tablet sodium salicylate twice a day in their feed. 



