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for human food. We cannot too earnestly caution our 

 readers against breeding from pigs that have ever been 

 affected with measles, or allowing their breeding sows 

 to eat the droppings of other animals, and especially of 

 their own. Raw flesh meat, too, should never be fed to 

 pigs. It contains the embryo tapeworms, and will be 

 quite likely to produce measles either in the pigs eating it 

 or in their offspring. Dogs are notoriously subject to 

 tapeworms (probably from eating raw flesh), and where 

 the dog tax is not enforced, we may expect measly pork. 



The seat of measles is the cellular matter immediately 

 under the skin. On the skin itself, in pigs affected with 

 this disease, will be found a number of small watery pus- 

 tules, of a reddish color, and it is attended with cough, 

 fever, pustules under the tongue, discharge from the nose, 

 running from the eyes, weakness of the hind legs, and 

 other indications of general debility. Unless neglected, 

 the disease seldom proves fatal. Sulphur, saltpeter, Epsom 

 salts, or other cooling medicines should be given, with 

 a liberal supply of wholesome, nutritious, and easily di- 

 gested food. 



Rheumatism is not an uncommon disease, especially in 

 thorough-bred pigs, when kept in damp sties, or furnished 

 with rich food one week and poor food the next, or kept 

 in a warm, ill-ventilated sty, and then exposed to storms, 

 and otherwise badly treated. The remedy is Rochelle 

 salts, good treatment, and liberal feeding. Give the salt 

 for two or three days, say one ounce a day for a 100-lb. 

 pig, and less, or more, according to size, and then omit 

 them for a few days. 



Protrusion of the rectum, especially with young pigs 

 suffering from a severe attack of diarrhoea, is not uncom- 

 mon. Wash the gut with warm water, rub on a little 

 laudanum, and then gently press the part back into its 

 place, pushing up the finger for a short distance. A little 

 sucking pig may have five drops of laudanum. 



