414 SWINB. 



An eruption is sometimes seen, which leaves crusts or scabs over the 

 skin. There is a rapid loss of flesh, the animal grows weak, stands with 

 arched back and the abdomen drawn up, and walks with a tottering, 

 uncertain gait. There is less and less inclination or ability to move, and 

 the weakness and exhaustion increase until death results. The disease 

 runs from one day to three weeks. 



The symptons of swine plague in many cases are not noticeably differ- 

 ent from those of hog cholera. Frequently the lungs are extensively 

 imflamed in swine plague, and the breathing is more oppressed and 

 labored, and the cough more frequent and painful. 



The best remedy which has been tried is the following: 

 1 pound Wood Charcoal, 



1 pound Sulphur, 



3 pounds Sodium Chloride, 



2 pounda Sodium Bicarbonate, 



2 pounds Sodium Hyposulphite, 



1 pound Sodium Sulphate, 



1 pound Antimony Sulphide (Black Antimony). 



The dose is a large tablespoonful for each 200 pounds weight of hogs 

 to be treated, given only once a day. When hogs are affected with these 

 diseases they should have at least once a day soft feed, made by mixing 

 bran and middlings with hot water, and then stirring into this the proper 

 quantity of the medicine. Hogs are fond of this mixture, and when 

 they once taste of food with which it has been mixed they will eat it 

 though nothing else would tempt them. 



Animals that are very sick and that will not come to the feed should 

 be drenched with the medicine shaken up with water. Do not turn the 

 hog- on its back to drench it, but pull the cheek away from the teeth so 

 as to form a pouch, into which the medicine may be slowly poured. It 

 will flow from the cheek into the mouth, and when the hog finds out 

 what it is, it will stop squealing and swallow. 



This medicine may also be used as a preventive of these diseases, and 

 for this purpose should be put in the feed of the whole herd. In cases 

 where it has been given a fair trial, it has apparently cured most of the 

 animals which were sick and has stopped the progress of the disease in 

 the herds. It is an excellent appetizer, and when given to unthrifty 

 hogs it increases the appetite, causes them to take on flesh, and assume 

 a thrifty appearance. 



