DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF SHEEP AND PIGS 485 
6. Wonns. 
This mostly affects young pigs. 
Symptoms. — The pig eats well but does not seem to 
thrive well, and sometimes small worms pass away in the 
manure. 
Treatment. — Give a handful of charcoal and hardwood 
ashes in the food twice a week, also give half a teaspoonful of 
sulphur for each pig twice a day in the food. This generally 
kills the worms. 
7. Turning Out of the Rectum or Back Bowel. 
Causes. — This is generally caused in young pigs by get- 
ting dry food to eat, causing the bowels to become costive. 
Straining to pass manure turns the back bowel out. When 
pigs rise on their hind legs with their front feet upon the 
front of the pen every time they are fed, or jumping a low 
fence and getting caught and lying with the belly over the 
fence may cause the back bowel to turn out. 
Symptoms. — There is a bulging out of the bowel from 
half the size of a hen's egg to even larger than a hen's egg. 
This is red and angry looking, and after a time becomes 
^ blackened. 
Treatment. — As soon as noticed give the bowel a syring- 
ing out with lukewarm water and soap to clean any hard 
manure out of it, then wash it off clean, oil the bulged out part 
and shove it back to its natural place. As soon as this is 
done, if a small pig, give a dessertspoonful of Epsom salts 
mixed in half a teacupful of lukewarm water. Pour this down as 
a drench, and give one-half teaspoonful of sulphur mixed in 
sloppy feed twice a day. This keeps the bowels free and the 
pig will generally be all right. Have the pig fastened in its 
pen so that 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 ifeturn it, but leave it alone 
and the piece of dead bowel will drop off of its own accord. 
The pig will be all right in a week or so, but give the physic 
and sulphur as mentioned to keep the bowels loose. 
8. Blind Staggers. 
This is a disease that affects the brain and nerves. 
Causes. — Being kept in a dirty, ill-ventilated, poorly 
drained, small pen causes the blood to get in such a bad state 
