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animal is already running a temperature of 107° to 108° F., it is 

 not of much use to give serum. If the hog is a valuable one, 

 however, it is worth the chance, and most surprising results will 

 often be noted. 



Fig. 71. — Another method of holding small shoat by means of a trough (H. 

 K. Mulford Co.). 



I remember injecting a herd of hogs near Hustonia, Mo., in 

 which nearly every hog in the herd of over 100 showed a high 

 fever on the morning of treatment. Some of these ran as high as 

 108° F. Large doses of serum alone were given, and the results 

 were most pleasing. Only 2 hogs were lost after the treatment 



