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for a time put the pigs on milk, adding one ounce of lime water to each 

 quart. Then gradually add middlings, then cornmeal and flaxseed meal. 



THUMPS This is a spasmodic action of the diaphram in young pigs and 

 is most common with fat and thriving porkers. Sometimes it 

 starts suddenly after heavy eating, but worms or any digestive disorder may 

 cause it. There is spasmodic, violent jerking of the body, similar to hic- 

 coughs in human beings. The animal takes little or no food or exercise and 

 loses condition. Sometimes it is permanently stunted. 



Treatment The one treatment is to restore good digestive order. This 

 means mixing Conkey's Stock Tonic in the feed, or slop, 1 

 tablespoon to every 8 hogs. If worms are the cause, Conkey's Worm Rem- 

 edy will get rid of them. Stop feeding corn and feed instead light slop mixed 

 with milk for instance, middlings, ground oats, barley meal, bran, flaxseed 

 meal. As they improve, add a little corn meal and 10 per cent, digester 

 tankage. After complete recovery see that a veterinary salt is kept in a dry 

 place where the hogs can help themselves to it any time. Make this veteri- 

 nary salt as follows: Common barrel salt, 45 Ibs., Stock Vigor, 5 Ibs., mix 

 thoroughly. Where indigestion is the cause be sure to give less food, more 

 charcoal, or wood ashes and more daily exercise. Use Conkey's Stock 

 Tonic for treatment as it will help digestion, tone up the organs and gradu- 

 ally the hog can be put back on the heavy fattening ration. 



TUBERCULOSIS Hogs usually become affected with tuberculosis from 

 following infected cattle or from being fed skim milk 



which is infected. Next to cattle, swine are the most liable to tuberculosis, 

 probably because they are pushed hard for production, just as dairy cattle 

 are, and the constitution is weakened. Do not let your hogs follow 

 cattle that have not been tuberculin tested, and use no creamery by-products 

 unless they are positively sterilized. Young stock, and stock not full of 

 natural vigor, are most liable to get the disease. Sometimes the disease 

 does not show for a considerable time. Usually there is a cough, especially 

 after drinking or exercise and most often in the morning. There is quick 

 breathing and the glands of the neck enlarge, with general digestive dis- 

 turbance and wasting away. 



Treatment Treatment is not practical on account of the danger of spread- 

 ing infection. But prevention is the real wisdom, that is: Keep 

 your stock vigorous and well, able to ward off disease in general. Provide 

 plenty of fresh air in barn or stable; use plenty of Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip 

 and Disinfectant around the hog quarters, put a little in the swill feed 

 occasionally, about a pint to a quart per barrel. Build up constitutional 

 vigor with occasional use of the Stock Tonic whenever the animals show any 

 sign of sickness. During fattening period it would pay to use Stock Tonic 

 regularly to insure proper digestion. A hog that's a hog will eat more than 

 it can digest naturally; that is why hogs under the strain of fattening for 

 the market should always be given Conkey's Stock Tonic to insure full use 

 of the liberal feed given. Remember also that breeding animals are under 

 severe strains, hence are liable to tuberculosis infection. Stock Tonic is just 

 the tonic and alterative needed by breeding animals. 



WORM Young growing pigs are sometimes affected with lung 



BRONCHITIS worms. The first signs of trouble are violent fits of 



coughing, which may keep up for weeks. The animal 



loses growth, in fact, often becomes permanently stunted. Inflammation 



