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added to tlie feed during my absence from home for a day and night, and on 

 my return the next day two of the young pigs were taken with conmlBions 

 and severe spasms. They died the next day, when two more were taken, 

 I soon after two more. The whole six died in the same way. First they 

 vly turned around and around, then stood with the head in a comer and 

 ised against the wall or yard fence; the jaws were chopped together, and 

 :i;jT foamed at the mouth. After a few hours they lay upon their sides and 

 Etruggled ^'iolently with the legs until they died. A dose of lard oil allayed 

 the symptoms for a time, and had it been given at first, would probably have 

 saved them. On opening them the lungs were found congested and very red 

 in patches, and the brain, also, was much congested, the blood vessels being 

 dark blue. The stomach and intestines were filled with cotton seed meal, 

 tiie milk having been digested. So short a case of indigestion, or stomach 

 staggers, as it is popularly called, is rare; but the pigs were but two montha 

 <dd, and had probably been misfed previously. 



A Convenient Feeding Trough.. — We give an illustration of a con- 

 venient trough for feeding hogs or sheep. It is especially well designed for 

 feeding hogs, and may be placed in the pen, the swing door above the 

 trough forming one side. 

 If desirable to use it out 

 "*■ doors, it may form part 



i fence. The construc- 



;j is simple. Two up- 

 r : g h t board standards, 



lut four feet high, are 



iled to the ends of the 



ugh to support a swing 



■r or partition, which is 

 . isted so that the lower 



,'e plays back and forth 



: over the top of the 



igh. The view given is 



the rear side of the 



igh, and the partition is swung forward to shut the animals away while 



:r food is Ijeing prepared. When ready, the slide is withdrawn, the par- 

 n swings over the rear side, and the hogs can "go in." Slats of wood 

 -uould be placed across the trough to keep the animals from standing in it. 

 By swinging the partition high enough, the hogs may pass under. 



Sanitary .Hanagenient of Swine_One great fault in the manage- 

 ment is to keep too many hogs together in one shed or inclosure. From 

 lit of proper protection in the way of housing, hogs are very apt to crowd 

 - < ther in bunches during cold weather; and, coming into the sheds wet 

 and dirty, and being obliged to lie either on old and filthy straw bedding or 

 on a wet and damp floor, ♦heir sweating and steaming soon produces a foul 

 atmosphere, and the bedding, not being removed at proper intervals, gets 

 1 rotten, and adds to contamination of the air. Being thus packed together in 

 the building, the hogs, in a warm and perspiring condition, are next exposed 

 :to the influence of cold winds and wet, by being turned out in the morning 

 jhours to run in the field among grass wet with cold dew or from ram or 

 Ihoar-frost, or to be fed from troughs in the yard. Among the common con- 

 sequences are congestion, cold or catarrh, and, if the go-caUed hog cholera 



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