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which will be red and angry looking, and after a time becom* 

 blackened. 



Treatment. — As soon as noticed give the back bowel a 

 syringing out with luke warm water and soap so as to clean any 

 hard manure out of it, then wash it off clean and oil the bulged 

 out part of the bowel and shove it back to its natural place. As 

 soon as this is done, if it is a small pig, give a tablespoonful or 

 epsom salts mixed in half a teacupful of luke warm water and 

 pour down as a drench, and give one-half teaspoonful of sulphur 

 mixed in sloppy feed twice a day, this will keep the bowels free 

 and the pig will generally be all right. Have the pig fastened in 

 its pen so it cannot jump up on its hind legs ; in a case where the 

 bowel is blackened or comes out two or three times after putting 

 it in, do not return it but leave it alone and the piece of dead 

 bowel will drop off of its own accord, and the pig will 

 be all right in a week or so, but give the physic and .sulphur as 

 mentioned to keep the bowels loose. 



BLIND STAGGERS. 



This is a disease that affects the brain and nerves. 



Causes. — From pigs being kept in a dirty, ill-ventilated, poor- 

 ly drained, small pen. The blood gets in such a bad state that it 

 becomes stagnant. This disease is mostly seen in pigs under a 

 year old. 



SymptoniS. — The pig will be dull, stands in a corner with its 

 ears lopped over, will not eat, and when it goes to walk will run 

 against anything in its way. In a short time, the ears, nose, and 

 around the head turns to a blue color which is caused by the 

 stagnant blood. The bowels are costive, and the pig becomes 

 duller and duller, until convulsions come on — and it dies. When 

 one pig becomes affected in a pen where there are thirty or forty 

 pigs kept, what caused it in that one will cause it in the other pigs, 

 and we have seen cases where farmers would have lost half a 

 dozen pigs in a few hours, so when you find the disease is affect- 

 ing your pigs, let them out of the pen where they are kept into 

 open air, and clean out the pen thoroughly. 



Treatment. — As soon as one pig becomes affected let them all 

 out of the pen into the open air for a few hours, and afterward put 

 them in a clean pen. In treating the affected one, drag it out into 

 the open air and rub it well with cloths to get the circulatios 

 started, and give the following : 



