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refuse to eat. If this is the case there is not much hope. 

 Exercise in this case is always fatal. 



SORE MOUTHS IN YOUNG PIGS. 



Some breeders and farmers often have trouble with sore 

 mouths among their pigs. There are two kinds of sore 

 mouth that we have had experience with — neither of which 

 need cause any troiible whatever. The more common cases 

 are caused by the pigs fighting each other while nursing 

 and with their little sharp tusks (which are usually black), 

 they strike each other on the sides of the face and jowl. 

 This trouble can be stopped at once by taking the pig, when 

 it is three or four days old, and nipping off these little tusks 

 with a very small pair of pliers and washing the sore part 

 of the face with a solution of any good coal tar dip. 



This trouble could be avoided if one was careful to note, 

 while the litter was sucking, whether or not there was any 

 inclination for the little fellows to fight each other. 



CANKER SORE MOUTH. 



Canker sore mouth is very dangerous, and unless treated 

 at once, a hard thing to cure; but what little we have had 

 in our herd has been stopped in a day on two by using a 

 soft cloth, wet in a solution of good dip (made quite strong) 

 and thoroughly washing the mouth of the pig affected. If 

 this is done daily, or even every two or three days, for three 

 or four times, it will absolutely cure canker sore mouth — or 

 at least it has done so in all cases we have had. If treat- 

 ment is not commenced within a short time after the canlcers 

 are formed, the teeth will drop out and gums slough off 

 and the pig die from the trouble. 



Canker sore mouth, I am informed, results from the con- 

 tamination with germs often found even in the soil; if 

 there has been no other way of the disease being com- 

 municated, the ground should be thoroughly wet with a 

 strong disinfectant. The sow's udder should also be thor- 

 oughly washed with disinfectant and the ttough as well, 

 and no further trouble is likely to occur. 



SORE FEET. 

 It is not often that pigs are troubled witli sore feet, yet 

 sometimes, where they are kept and fed on frozen ground. 



