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Treatment Dip, scrub or spray with Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip and Dis- 

 infectant according to directions on package and also as ad- 

 vised page 193 on Swine. Repeat the operation in a week or ten days in 

 order to kill every nit. These nits hatch out after the first dressing and 

 unless you go after them lice will soon be swarming over your hogs once 

 more. Nor is this all. Go over every part of the hog quarters and clean up 

 and disinfect thoroughly with the Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant, using 

 a spray pump or sprinkling can. Clean up and whitewash the sleeping 

 places, pens and houses. Let no new animal join the herd until thoroughly 

 examined and treated for lice. With clean hogs, clean quarters and regular 

 use of Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant you can keep out of the lice problem. 



KIDNEY WORMS This worm is 

 often blamed 



for symptoms of paralysis, but there 

 is no proof. However, it does enough 

 mischief otherwise, in time completely 



destroying the substance of the kid- Kidney worm 



ney. Not much is known of the kid- 

 ney worm, although it is very large, the female measuring 3 ft. in some 

 cases, but usually much less. The male is about 12 inches long. The egg 

 is passed in the urine, and its presence is the only sure proof of the worm, 

 except post mortem examination. No medicine will reach kidney worms, 

 hence there is no treatment. 



MANGE This is a common itching skin disease of swine, caused by 

 a parasite which buries itself below the surface, irritating the 

 skin and forming blotches and pimples, usually very much inflamed and 

 filled with pus. These form into crusts and scabs, usually appearing first 

 about the eyes and ears, but quickly spreading down the neck to the lower 

 part of the body. Sometimes scabs completely cover the body. Itching is 

 intense and young pigs often die from the irritation; in any case there is 

 great loss of flesh. This disease is contagious and will spread to the whole 

 pen or yard. The animals will rub and scratch themselves on posts and 

 corners, thus helping to spread the infection. 



Treatment The hogs not affected should be separated from the others 

 and the affected animals and the old quarters should be put 

 through a thorough course of Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant 

 treatment. Dipping in a solution of Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant as 

 directed is the simplest treatment, but if the weather is cold or the herd is 

 small the best plan is to scrub each animal, using an old broom dipped in 

 the solution according to directions. In a week or ten days repeat the treat- 

 ment. Where the herd is fairly large a spray pump will be found convenient 

 for treatment. With the same solution of Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant 

 go over the quarters thoroughly. Clean up thoroughly and whitewash. 

 This will put the infected quarters in good condition. Saturate old clothes 

 with Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant, using double strength, and fasten 

 these to the rubbing posts or scratching corners, so that when the pigs 

 scratch themselves they will heal instead of irritating the part. 



- There is another kind of mange not commonly understood. The para- 

 site in this case attacks the hair follicles so that we call this "follicular 

 mange." The parasites work deep down into the roots of the bristles so 

 that it is almost impossible to reach them with an ordinary skin application. 

 A practical plan is to market such affected animals before they lose market 

 condition. The dip treatment above is the only possible treatment for this 



