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The liver fluke (Fasciola hipsatica) is occasionally met with in the livers 
of pigs, but it is not often that they are present in sufficient numbers to 
materially interfere with the animal’s health. 
It is important that worm medicine should be given on an empty stomach— 
that is, after the animal has fasted for several hours—and no food, except a 
small quantity, in which some medicines may be given, should be allowed for 
Wo hours after, : 
,, Lwo teaspoonfuls of saleratus dissolved in water and poured into the slop 
will remove worms from pigs. When you notice a pig not doing well, when it 
refuses its feed and begins to look scrawny and sick, the chances are 99 to 100 
at it has worms. If you kill one and examine it you will find a bunch of 
Worms in its intestines perhaps as largeas your fist. These cause pouagpation 
mG fever, which kill pigs. Oftentimes the worms will eat through the 
iestines into the stomach. Dissolved saleratus in the proportion of two 
“spoonfuls to every gallon of water will kill the worms, and almost immediately 
Your pigs will begin to thrive and look well again. 
SCOURS OR DIARRHGSA IN YOUNG PIGS. 
Reentis is the most common trouble with young pigs, and it is the result of 
4 ai causes: Over or improper feeding of the sow; cold, damp beds or bedding ; 
‘ning in the grass when the dew is on; sudden changes in the weather ; sudden 
foolee from a warm, dry pen to a cold or wet one; impure, unsound, or musty 
ee Insuflicient food or water, &¢. When the pigs are young in most eases the 
nedy Must be administered through the food given the sow, but in order to 
ra 's intelligently you must, to the best of you ability, remove the cause as 
as apply remedies. If it is caused by over or improper feeding, musty 
ood, stale or sour slops, correct by giving sound feed and sweet scalded milk. 
. equently it may be ieened by feeding only dry maizemeal or whole wheat 
ora few days. Tf scours resulf from taking cold, give sulphur in feed to sow 
a eal days. If from over or ie feed, give charcoal liberally, and 
Phur and a little carbolic acid in the food. If pigs are old enough to eat, 
Sealded milk, thickened with flour, dry maizemeal, or whole wheat are excellent, 
SCOURING PIGS. 
HOW TO AVOID AND CURE SCOUR. 
ar One of the most common and costly troubles of the pig breeder and feeder 
larrhoea, or “scour,” as he generally calls it, says a writer in ‘ Bibby’s 
Narterly,” r 
as fas is caused by too much feverish and rich milk. Sometimes little pigs 
Tana with the scours. Sows that produce such pigs usually are very 
wae is at farrowing times, and seldom save all their pigs. I*eed the sow 
a arly, and a day or two before she is due to farrow do not feed as heavy as 
cue Give her warm water the first twelve hours after farrowing, and the 
Welve hours a thin bran mash. Exercise the sow and litter after the third 
ae Feed litter some dry oats if you have them. ‘To stop the pigs from 
oe Sat T have been very successful in using a teaspoonful of copperax to a 
On vii Seven or eight pigs. There are some things which should never be fed 
a Suckling sow: sour things, such as sour butter-milk, sour whey, &e. 
eondamhee is really not a disease in itself, but only a symptom of a diseased 
specifi on, being a morbidly frequent evacuation of the intestines; but it is so 
tract its character that the name will always be retained to express this 
© without reference to its cause. 
on ae sucking pigs it is very generally associated with an altered or depraved 
e ition of the milk of the sow, due to over or improper feeding. In these 
casts It 18 a very safe proceeding to change her diet and give her a full dose of 
°r oil, which will act on young pigs through the milk, and help to get rid of 
hg causing irritation of the intestinal canal. 
