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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · County Directories Collection MONROE COUNTY any, which is not saying much. It is months when covered in the corners of suggested by, the Department of Agriculture: straw stack; but when exposed to sun- pens, or filth of yards, or about an old Sulphur 1 pound. light or dryness they lose vitality in a Wood charcoal 1 pound. few days, and under some very drying Sodium chloride 2 pounds. sunlight conditions in a few hours. Carefully observing these facts,
Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · County Directories Collection CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY for their hearty health, rapid and easy digestion and speedy, profitable growth. THUMPS.—This disease is quite common (especially in the early spring) and is exceedingly hard to handle when once contracted. More can be done to prevent than to cure. You visit the sow and litter in the morning to give them their accustomed feed, and you notice that one of the fattest and plumpest ones dons not leave his bed as do the others. You enter the sleeping room and compel him to come out, which he does somewhat reluctantly, and you will notice that his sides move with a peculiar jerking motion, and if allowed he will soon return to his bed. Rest assured he has thumps, and nine chances to one he will die. It is caused by fatty accumulations about the breast, which interfere with its action, and the lungs work hard—pump for dear life to keep up the heart's action— to send the blood through the body. The pig is famt because of feeble circulation, and he is cold, and soon dies from exhaustion or weakness. He has no strength to suck or move. To prevent thumps, get over .into the pen several times a day and hustle the little pigs about the pen; also stint the sow so that she will give less milk. Pigs when they stir about, and when they are thin in flesh, rarely have thumps. _ Thumps rarely occurs among pigs farrowed after the weather is fine, but does quite frequently occur among pigs farrowed in early spring. If the weather is cold and stormy and the sow and litter keep their bed much, then be on the lookout for thumps. Guard against it by compelling both sow and litter to exercise in the open air. CANKEROUS SORE MOUTH IS a disease which is quite common and which if not promptly taken in hand is often quite fatal. When pigs are from a fewdays to two weeks old, you may notice a slight swelling of the lips or a sniffling in the nose. An examination will show a whitish spongy growth on the sides of the mouth just inside the lips or around the teeth. This is cankerous sore mouth and if not taken promptly in hand will result in the death of the entire litter, and will sometimes spread to other litters. .. . . . Some claim the disease is caused by damp and filthy beds, others say it comes from a diseased condition of the sow, and still others claim it is caused by the little pigs fighting over theJ? ts * wounding each other with their sftarp teeth, and stoutly aver that if the teeth are promptly removed no case of sore mouth will ever occur. Hold the pig firmly and with a knife or some cutting instrument remove all the spongy foreign growth, and be sure you get it. all even though the pig may squeal and the wound bleed; your success in treating the disease will depend largely on the thoroughness with which you remove this foreign growth. After removing the fungous growth apply an ointment made of glycerine and carbolic acid in about the proportion of one part of the acid to from five to eight parts glycerine. Repeat this each day for three or four days and the disease will usually yield. You may discover in a day or two after commencing treatment that you did not succeed in removing all the cankerous growth at first, and if so, repeat the cutting operation till you do remove it all. Another treatment which we have, heard recommended is to catch the diseased pig and dip his nose and mouth up to his eyes in chlora naptholeum without diluting it This is certainly easily done and is highly commended by the person suggesting it. BLIND STAGGERS, INDIGESTION, SICK STOMACH, FOUNDER.—Causes, over-feeding, especially common with new corn; sour or decayed food. Sudden warm sultry weather predisposes in highly fed hogs. Insufficient exercise is also a predisposing cause. Symptoms.—Loss of appetite, bowels constipated, or maybe diarrhoea. In some severe cases blind staggers and great paleness of mouth and nose, coldness of surface of body; abdomen may be distended and drum-like from contained gases. Treatment.—Remove sick animals, provide clean, dry, well ventilated quarters, with chance for exercise, and fresh earth and water. If animal will eat, give light feed. Give charcoal in lump form, also mix soda bicarbonate in food at rate of two tablespoonfuls per day to each half-grown animal. It is rarely necessary to drench with medicine. # If recovery begins, use care not to again feed too much. MILK FEVER occurs m sows immediately after farrowing or within the first few days afterwards. The symptoms are loss of milk, swollen, hard condition of the milk glands, which are .nore or less painful on pressure. Sow may not allow the pigs to suck; she may lie flat on her 369
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