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should be in the same pen, and fewer would be still 

 better. Feed but little, and let that be food which is 

 easily digested. Use air-slacked lime and crude car- 

 bolic acid freely as a disinfectant. Use it both on the 

 hogs and on the ground, in the sleeping places, on the 

 fences and in the drinking vessels. As much depends 

 on a thorough use of disinfectants as upon any other 

 thing. If the bowels are constipated give something to 

 move them. If too loose give something to check them. 

 In short, use good common horse sense (so to speak) 

 and you will usually succeed very well. I have found 

 nothing better than salts or oil to move the bowels, and 

 I have tried nothing with better results to check them 

 than a few drops of crystal carbolic acid. I know of 

 no food better, if indeed as good, for sick hogs than 

 ship stuff, or middlings as it is sometimes called ; it 

 seems to digest easily and is soothing to the bowels. 



If the weather is wet and cold keep the hogs dry 

 and warm. In wet weather (if not too warm) keep 

 the hogs in a floored pen, or at least in a pen where no 

 water will lie in sinks or holes, as dirty water is one of 

 the worst things a sick hog can possibly have. If the 

 weather is warm, shelter the hog from heat. In other 

 words, make him as comfortable as possible. 



Let it be borne constantly in mind that much de- 

 pends on good nursing. It would seem natural and 

 reasonable that an animal afflicted as he is would do 

 best if allowed plenty of fresh water to drink, but 

 actual experience demonstrates that a greater number 

 recover when the supply of water is limited than when 

 it is not. I do not pretend to say why it is so, but ex- 

 perience has taught me that it is. 



