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fully watched, a mnzzle should be put upon her, and her little ones 

 should be smeared with train oil and aloes as soon as possible. 



The teats of the sow will sometimes swell, and hard knots may be 

 felt in them as in the garget of cattle. The treatment should be nearly 

 the same except that bleeding is scarcely requisite. A dose of physic, 

 however, is indispensable. The Garget Ointment for Cattle (Recipe 

 No. 24, p. 69) may be rubbed with advantage into the teats, which 

 should be carefully wiped or washed before the young ones are per- 

 mitted to suck again ; indeed they will not suck whife any unusual 

 smell remains about the teats. The milk should also be gently but 

 well pressed out of the diseased teats. 



When it is wished to spay a breeding sow, in order that she may 

 be put up for fattening, it may be done while she is suckling. The 

 yonng pigs may be cut at three or four weeks old : they shoufd never 

 be suffered to suck longer than two months ; and they may be rung 

 as soon as convenient after weaning. No hog should escape ringing^ 

 even if he is destined to live in the sty. It is the only way tolieep 

 him quiet, and will contribute materially to his thriving. 



QUINSY. 



This disease in the hog is compounded of sore throat and enlarge- 

 ment of the glands of the throat, and is something like strangles'^in 

 the horse — inflammation and enlargement of the cellular substance 

 between the skin and muscles under the lower jaw. The progress of 

 the malady is rapid, and the sv/elling is sometimes so great as to 

 prevent the breathing, and consequently to suffocate the animal. To 

 a skin so thick as that of the hog it is useless to make any external 

 application. The patient should be bled; two ounces of salts should 

 be given, and half-ounce doses repeated every six hours, until the 

 bowels are well opened ; while warm weak wash, or milk and water, 

 sliould be occasionally poured into the trough. It is not often a dan- 

 gerous disease if remedies are early adopted. 



[Governor Vance, of Ohio, now in Congress, lias been very observant of the dis- 

 eases to which domestic animals are subject in that State and the west. These sheets 

 having been submitted to his inspection, he answered :— 



Washing-ton, January 22d, 1844. 



I have looked over the sheets enclosed relative to the diseases of hogs, and am 

 convinced that what is termed " quins f in these sheets is the same disease we were 

 conversing about the other evening at Mr. Seaton's. By careful attention to the 

 early stages of this disease, if it is the same that afflicts our swine in the west, it 

 will be found that they will become stiff in all their limbs, and will move with as 

 much difficulty as a foundered horse, and with almost the precise symptoms. 



When this is the case, we know of no cure but a thorough cleansing and opening 

 of the ducts or holes in the inside of the fore-legs, which will give free respiration : 

 this, with ashes and sulphur mixed with salt, or incorporated with the food, will 

 generally effect a cure. 

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