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warmth and perspiration. Take care that no draught is allowed to blow on™ 
Do just about as you would if a man were sick. Constipation is the beginnil! 
of many ailments ; prevent it and you preserve health. 
COMMON AILMENTS OF PIGS. 
THUMPS. | 
If the sow gets too fat when the pigs are quite young, and they have nl 
become used to exercising, then thumps willbe most sure to follow. It can? 
avoided by driving the pigs about the pen after the dam has left the pen ; and! 
the weather gets so warm so the pigs can go outside the pen, then make the! 
follow the dam. The cause of the thumps is the fat that gathers around # 
blood-making machinery of the pig and makes the blood flow slowly; and, © 
course, the pig gets sluggish, and if not attended to soon dies. a 
Thumps, as a rule, is caused by too high living and too little exerci 
Lessen the feed and give regular exercise every day. 
SORE ‘TAILS. i 
While the pigs are lying around their pens in cold, damp weather, the’ 
tails are apt to become sore, The cause of this is damp, cold nests. Let as mul 
sunshine in on the pigs as you can. Tf the tails feel hard and rough, batht 
them with lard and carbolie acid—about 1 drop of acid to 1 oz of Jarl 
This should be repeated every day until the scab begins to peel off. This is a 
a good remedy for scurvy. 
CONSTIPATION. 
This may follow too severe measures to prevent scours, and when too mu 
dry feed is sometimes used. In this case feed linseed meal and soft feeds © 
the dam. For costiveness in pigs, give freely of bran mashes mixed with linset! 
tea. Make no more of the mashes than the pigs will eat up clean, as if any? 
left over it may sour. 
i SORE MOUTHS. ‘ 
This is another blood disease, and can usually be cured if taken in time 
The best remedy that I know of is 3 1b. each of Epsom salts, soda, and sulphw 
mixed, and given to the dam in tablespoonful doses in slop three times a 
until the result is attained. Some people have an idea that it is the little blae 
tusks that cause the sores, but it is not. 
SWINE FEVER. ; 
This disease is termed in America “ hog cholera.” It is a highly contagio™ 
disease peculiar to swine, associated with inflammation of the lungs and all 
mentary tract, causing death in from ten to thirty days. Professor McFadye® 
of the London Veterinary College, claims to have discovered the true diseé 
producing organism of swine fever; but, as not less than three, and poss! } 
four, species of bacilli have been cultivated from swine fever at different tim@ 
by Klein, one by Reitsh Jobert, and one by McFadyean, and as cultures of 4 
these bacilli have been credited with producing swine fever in experiment 
animals, and as each one has been pronounced to be the contayium of il 
disease, these statements must be accepted with caution, and until a bacillus hi 
been cultivated from swine fever, from which another investigator can prep 
sub-cultures, and with these sub-cultures produce the typical ulcerations 
swine fever in pigs on a farm, or on premises in which swine fever is unknowW” 
it is well to conclude that the contagium has not yet been discovered. ht 
lesions of swine fever may assume the form ofa diphtheritic or croup" 
inflammation, the deposit of which may fill the intestinal tube, accompanied yy 
inflammation of the lungs, skin, and fever. \ 
In the early stage sometimes symptoms are not perceptible, and althoug 
the animals are quite capable of transmitting the disease nothing may 
noticed except cough and swelling of the glands of the groin; thus it is 
difficult to understand how affected animals may be removed from one part 
the country unsuspected, and be thus the means of spreading the disease. 
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