. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. S4() THE AMERICAN FARMEK's STOCK BOOK. Mix as a powder, and give iu tiie food. Ruh the animal thoroughly with soft soap, and at the end of an hour clean well with warm rain water. "When dry, prepare the following: No. 17. 1 Pint train oil, 2 Drachms oil of tar, 1 Draclim petroleum, Flowers of sulphur to form a thick paste. Rub this thoroughly in, and let it remain three days. Then wash thoroughly with strong soap suds, and if the difficulty is not removed, repeat the application of the ointment.
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. S4() THE AMERICAN FARMEK's STOCK BOOK. Mix as a powder, and give iu tiie food. Ruh the animal thoroughly with soft soap, and at the end of an hour clean well with warm rain water. "When dry, prepare the following: No. 17. 1 Pint train oil, 2 Drachms oil of tar, 1 Draclim petroleum, Flowers of sulphur to form a thick paste. Rub this thoroughly in, and let it remain three days. Then wash thoroughly with strong soap suds, and if the difficulty is not removed, repeat the application of the ointment. The animals must be changed to perfectly clean quarters, with clean bedding. Burn all old bedding, and paint the floor cracks, and every surface outside and in, with quick-lime, slaked with carbolic acid, one part to one hundred of water ; or get the carbolic liijuor from the nearest gas-works, and slake with that. XI. Lice. There would seem no reason why swine should be infested with lice. If they be suspected, examine the hogs, and when dry, after washing with soft soap and water, sponge freely with crude petroleum, and give daily, for some days, J drachm of copperas iu the food. If any lice remain, apply an ointment of Scotch snuff and lard to the infestetl parts. XII. Diarrhoea. Young j^igs arc often taken witii diarrhuea, gen- erally during the first ten days after birth. The difficulty lies in the milk of the sow, either from bad „, . ,. , ,., food or other disabilitv- Blood-sucking louse of the P's- What to do.—Give good, nourishing food, of which sound grain is the 1)asis ; place a mixture of powdered charcoal and salt Avhere the pigs and sow ma^' freel}- take it. Prepare the following: No. 18. 2 Pounds powdered foenugreek seed, 2 Pounds powdered anise seed, 2 Pounds powdered chalk, 1 Pound powdered gentian, 2 Ounces carbonate of soda. Mix, and give a tablcspoonful to the sow every time she is fed. Xm. Leprosy. "We have received accounts of hogs affected with
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