338 BUILDINGS, SANITATION, AND DISEASES 
SCOURS. 
Dr, Alexander (Wisconsin Bulletin 184) writes as follows: 
“When young nursing pigs begin to scour, it is evident that 
the milk of the sow is disagreeing with them, and immediate 
attention, therefore, should be directed towards improving her 
ration. Most often the trouble comes from overfeeding on corn, 
or other rich feed, just after farrowing, and pigs of fat, flabby, 
pampered, cross, nervous, constipated sows are most apt to 
suffer. Sudden changes of feed, or feeding sour or decom- 
posing slop, or feed from dirty troughs or sour swill-barrels, 
also tend to cause diarrheea either in nursing pigs or those that 
have been weaned, and all such causes should be prevented or 
removed. 
“To correct scouring in nursing pigs, give the sow 15 to 
20 grains sulphate of iron (copperas) in her slop night and 
morning, and if necessary slightly increase the dose until 
effective. Lime water may, with advantage, be freely mixed 
with the slop as a preventive when there is a tendency to 
derangement, or after the trouble has been checked, and it ia 
also an excellent corrective for weaned pigs showing a tend- 
ency to scour on slop or skim-milk. Where little pigs are 
scouring severely, each may with advantage be given a raw 
egg and 5 to 10 grains of subnitrate of bismuth twice daily, in 
addition to changing the feed of the sow and mixing copperas 
in her slop. In cases which do not promptly respond to treat- 
ment, success may follow the administration of a dose of castor 
oil shaken up in milk. In all cases it is important to set right 
all errors in diet and sanitation, and to provide the pigs with 
dry, sunny, well-ventilated quarters. The derangement is 
always most apt to occur, and sure to prove disastrous, among 
pigs kept in unsanitary conditions.” 
