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Treatment. — Wash the pig well with creolin water, 
which is a sure, cheap and simple remedy. The strength of 
creolin to be used is two tablespoonfuls to a pint of water. 
Rub the creolin water in all over the pig with a stiff brush. 
It generally takes two washings to make a complete cure. 
The second application should be put on about a week after 
the first. As well as this, clean the pen thoroughly, shake 
lime around the floor, and put fresh, clean straw in for 
them to lie on. 
12. Hog Cholera. 
This is an infectious blood disease, and is sometimes 
called anthrax. It is noticed to break out in herds of hogs 
all over the country. 
Symptoms. — The first symptoms are dullness, dooping 
of the head and ears, loss of appetite, and the pig goes away 
by itself to lie down. It seems very feverish, hot, and in 
some cases will lie quiet and die very suddenly, while in 
other cases, as the symptoms advance, it has pains in the 
bowels, will lie on its side, moan with pain, then jump up, run 
around, squeal and grunt in a very painful manner. The 
pig at times gets easy spells and becomes quiet. If you 
catch and examine it you will find that the skin of the belly, 
thighs, front legs, throat, and around the nose are of a purple 
color, and in some cases on account of the high fever, the 
skin broken out in a rash. In the last stages of the disease 
there is diarrhoea, and the manure which is very thin, is of 
a black color and has a very bad smell. The pig rapidly 
loses strength, gets a cough, begins breathing very heavy, 
and in a few hours is so weak that it can hardly stand. In 
some cases it dies in from six to ten hours after being smit- 
ten with the disease, while in other cases it lives for a few 
days. The rash that comes out on the skin soon causes it to 
slough, and the skin drops off in places, giving the animal 
a bad appearance. 'Although this is a very fatal disease and 
most of the pigs die that are aflfected with it, occasionally 
cases get better when the treatment is taken in time. 
Treatment. — As soon as any of the pigs are noticed sick, 
separate the sick ones from the others and put them in a 
dry, clean pen. Give the following medicine to each, using 
