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Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Lice 
I have three shotes 14 weeks old that 
were lousy. Used machine oil and am rid 
of the lice, but they are infested with the 
nits. Do you suppose this oil killed the 
nits, and, if not, what can I use to kill 
the nits? A. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is unlikely that the oil killed the 
nits and a new brood of lice will soon be 
hatched out and have to be killed by 
another application of oil or dip solution. 
It would be best at once to dip the hogs, 
if the weather is not too cold, or spray 
them with dip solution and then rub it in 
with a brush. Add enough crude petro¬ 
leum to the dip solution to form a scum 
upon the surface. You should also cleanse, 
disinfect and whitewash the stable and all 
rubbing places and put in new, fresh 
bedding at frequent intervals. 
Ringworm 
I have a Holstein cow that is troubled 
with itch and her hide , is covered with 
scab. T. A. N. 
New York. 
Scrub the skin with soap and hot water 
for removal of scabs and crusts. It may 
even be necessary to first keep the sores 
saturated with oil for a few days before 
washing. When clean, dust the spots with 
a solution of one pound of sulphate of 
copper (bluestone) in two quarts of hot 
water, and repeat the application at in¬ 
tervals of five to eight days. Isolate af¬ 
flicted cattle. Cleanse, disinfect and 
whitewash the stable and all rubbing 
places. The disease is caused by a veg¬ 
etable parasite and is contagious. 
Thin Horse 
Will you tell what to do for one of our 
horses? lie is about 12 years old. weight 
about 1.200 pounds. lie has always been 
used as a driving horse in town until one 
year ago, then he was in good flesh. We 
are now using him on the farm. He is 
very thin and rough. lie eats well, has 
been turned to pasture on green rye for 
several weeks with other horses; they 
are all fat and sleek. This horse has 
rectal worms and possibly stomach worms 
too; his teeth seem to be all right. We 
have worked him but very little for sev¬ 
eral weeks on account of his condition. 
We are potato growers and work our 
horses quite hard during the potato sea¬ 
son. This horse is sound in limb and 
wind, and had plenty of snap a year ago. 
New Jersey. ' w. c. m. 
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Have the horse’s teeth attended to by 
a veterinarian, as the age of the horse 
indicates that such attention is necessary. 
For worms mix in the feed night end 
morning for a week a tablespoonful of a 
mixture of two parts of table salt and 
one part each of sulphur and powdered 
copperas. Then stop for 10 days and 
then repeat the treatment. If he does 
not sufficiently improve give half an 
ounce of Fowler’s solution of arsenic 
night and morning, after starting 10 days I 
after the treatment for worms, and grad¬ 
ually discontinue the medicine after about 
a quart of it has been given, and taking! 
a week or more to the process. 
Ascites 
I butchered a hog today, a Spring pig. 
It was the runt of the litter and never 
seemed to grow as the rest did. It only 
dressed 125 pounds, while its mates go 
about 200 pounds. I never saw a hog 
the size of this one bleed as much as this 
one did when we killed it. but the part 
that seemed so particularly wrong about 
the pig was after we had it hung up and 
were taking the inwards out. When we 
had it opened about to the navel the 
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were grown together at the outer ends, 
just seemed to be glued together, as they 
came apart without tearing the surface 
of either piece. I am writing this most 
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Also if this was any contagious disease 
that we should take precautions about 
putting other hogs in the same pen, as 
we shot and bled the hog in his pen. 
J. F. B. 
Dropsy of the abdomen (ascites! was 
present and was due to disease of the 
liver and probably to chronic peritonitis, 
which probably resulted from castration. 
Worms were incidental, but would help 
to keep the pig from thriving. We should 
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