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should be buried deep and the body covered with 

 slacked lime before being covered with the earth, 

 and the part where the sick animal was before and 

 where it died sprinkled with the carbolic lotion 

 above mentioned. When the disease is in the 

 neighborhood and before it makes its appearance 

 or after it has done so, each pig should have ten 

 drops of strong nitro-hydrochloric acid in its food 

 twice a day for a week. It is wise when the dis- 

 ease breaks out on the farm to separate all the well 

 ones some distance from the affected ones and put 

 them under the acid treatment. I have seen ex- 

 cellent results from this. 



Treatment : A great many hogs can be cured of 

 this disease if only properly treated, and there is 

 no doubt that in many cases it would not pay t^ 

 undertake it ; but when a man has a few or a num- 

 ber of valuable hogs it would pay to have them 

 treated. The pigs should be put into a comfortable 

 well ventilated place free from draughts, and in 

 the early stage each should get two ounces of cas- 

 tor oil; this should be followed by giving ten drops 

 of nitro-hydrochloric acid well diluted with water 

 three times a day; also give half an ounce of spirits 

 of turpentine in a little sweet oil once a day; con- 

 tinue this for three or four days, then give four 

 grains of quinine dissolved in two tablespoonfuls 

 of good whisky, with the same quantity of cold 

 water at a dose, three times a day for four or five 

 days if necessary. This treatment I followed up 

 last year with excellent results. Some very valu- 

 able sows, which were not able to rise, recovered 



