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loss of flesh. They may be exterminated by keeping the hog 

 without food for twenty-four hours, and giving to each shote or 

 old pig one tablespoonful of turpentine thoroughly beaten up 

 with one egg and one-half pint of milk. Good food and care will 

 generally prevent serious injury from round worms. Hogs in- 

 fested should not be pastured with others, or where others may 

 pasture within a year. The adult worms are passed off with the 

 manure, and being filled with eggs, render the pasture unsafe for 

 many months, as the eggs withstand extreme and long continued 

 exposure I lost several shotes, in fact eight out of a lot of nine. 

 They would come to the trough and drink, apparently all right, 

 then bound into the air, squeal and lie down and die. I was then 

 told they had throat worms. I caught the only remaining one and 

 poured down its throat a teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine. It 

 squealed as loudly as any of them, but lived and raised a fine 

 litter of pigs. 



PARALYSIS OF THE HIND PARTS. When hogs are affected by 

 worms in the kidneys, they are sore across the loins and seem to 

 have lost the use of their hind parts. When forced to do so they 

 will get up and walk, but when the hinder parts are paralyzed 

 they will not get up and cannot walk. For the last trouble, stimu- 

 late the surface with washing and rubbing with hot water, and 

 keep the bed dry and clean. Turn them over and be patient ; 

 they will generally get over it. They must have cooling and lax- 

 ative foods. For worms in the kidneys, rub the back across the 

 loins with spirits of turpentine every other day for a week, and it 

 not better give a dose at the mouth on an empty stomach, one or 

 two tablespoonfuls according to size. Do this two or three times. 

 Dilute the turpentine with milk. 



The most common form of tapeworm in man is derived from 

 eating pork which contains the larval form of this parasite. The 

 embryos are visible to the naked eye in infected pork ; each em- 

 bryo is surrounded by a small bladder-like sac, about the size of 

 a grain of shot. When such pork is eaten by man in uncooked , or 

 partly cooked, condition, the embryo worms develop into adult 

 worms, which reach many feet or yards in length. The mature 

 worm in man is continually throwing off sections of its body 

 filled with eggs. If these are eaten by the hog, they hatch in the 

 hog's stomach and bore their way into the flesh of the pig. 



Prevention. Avoid the use of infected pork. Prevent hogs 



