146 FoBTY Yeabs' Experience of a Practical Hon Man. 



or large quantities in the throat and often about the lungs, 

 causing a severe cough and much emaciation. These can 

 usually be readily cleaned out by giving a couple of table- 

 spoons of turpentine to each three hundred pounds of 

 live weight, in the slop every day for three days, then skip- 

 ping a day or two and using it again for three days. 



It must be remembered that when you are doctoring a 

 pig for worms with medicine of any kind it should be given 

 on an empty stomach, or in other words after the pig has 

 been kept from feed about eighteen hours, otherwise the 

 turpentine or worm medicine would have little or no effect. 



These species of worms are the only two with which I 

 have ever had any experience during our many years of 

 breeding pigs, and they never caused me any trouble what- 

 ever, as we are always on the alert for worm symptoms. 



The eye of the feeder is one of the great things in the 

 hog business. The man who feeds the pigs should take in- 

 terest enough in his work to carefully note the condition of 

 each animal daily, and if there is ever so small a change in 

 the animal, by way of being a little "off feed", he must at 

 once find out what the trojible is, whether it is an over feed 

 from the day before, or a little indisposition from condi- 

 tions which, unless promptly attended to, might lead to 

 serious trouble. The old adage that a "Stitch in time 

 saves nine" was never more true than in the care of swine. 



WHY YOUNG PIGS LOSE THEIR TAILS. 



One often notices when looking over a number of litters, 

 especially of Spring pigs that were farrowed during 

 the cold months of February and March, that a number of 

 them have lost their tails. This condition is caused wholly 

 by neglecting to provide dry beds for the sow and litter. 

 I do not mean by this that an occasional change of bedding, 

 onco every week or two would prevent it, but that the bed 

 of the young nursing litter must be absolutely dry at all 

 times, and to make it such it should be changed at least 

 every other day. Otherwise the bed will become damp and 

 the mother and litter will heat it so that it soon commences 

 to steam, and if you should put your hand on the straw you 

 will find it hot and wet. This will surely cause their little 

 tails to shrivel and in a week or so drop off. 



