274 DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



Another. Rub them all over with a stiff brush, 

 dipped in cold water j then boil parsley roots and me in 

 salt water, and give. 



Itch, or Mange, often appears among pigs only a 

 few weeks old. They are seen rubbing their sides, and 

 on examination, it will be found that their bellies are 

 broken out with fine water blisters, somewhat like itch 

 on a person. If nothing be done to cure them, the dis- 

 order increases, and they grow poor, and rub themselves 

 until they rub off the hair, and most of the skin from 

 their sides, and the greater part of them die. 



Remedy. Lard and sulphur, in equal parts, melted, 

 and mixed together, and applied very liberally all over, 

 effects a speedy cure. Mr. Isaac Stone, of Watertown, 

 informed us of this remedy, which we published in the 

 Farmer's Journal. He used it with invariable success. 

 Previous to his discovering this remedy, he lost many 

 swine by this disease, though trying various medicines, 

 external and internal. At the same time, give sulphur. 



Blind Staggers is caused by a determination of blood 

 to the head. But there are causes for that, and one may 

 be the stoppage of the issues, which should be opened 

 the first thing. High feeding, and the want of pure air, 

 exercise, and condiments, are causes. 



Remedy. A warming medicine is needed. Give a 

 good dose of new rum and pepper. 



Another. Cut the smooth knob in the roof of the 

 mouth, until the animal bleeds freely, and then rub it 

 with a powder of loam and salt, and give urine to drink. 



Another. With a sharp knife, make an incision 

 '.:hrough the skin, about two inches in length, vertically, 

 )n the forehead, about one and a half inches below the top 

 of the head, and insert in the wound and under the skin, 

 as much fine salt as possible. Kepeat the salt often. 



Is Tobacco Poisonous to Hogs ? Tobacco is a deadly 

 poison to hogs, when taken internally ; so says one, as 

 he lost some hogs that had eaten tobacco. But another 

 says that he gave to four hogs a good sized hand of 

 tobacco, as a remedy for the worms, and they did well. 



Sore Throat. Turn hogs thus affected into an open 

 pasture, where they can have fresh herbage, pure air and 



