It is pneumonia and in its treatment “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  Once pneumonia gets a foothold in a hog, the chances are so strongly in favor of death that recovery may be considered out of the question.  Since remedies are not certain in the cure of pneumonia, it will be found that the prevention of the disease is the only real way to combat it.  The main causes of the disease are exposure to draughts, sudden changes in temperature, damp beds, manure heaps as sleeping quarters, and exposure to the disease itself.  Pigs in thin condition or weak constitutionally are more liable to contract the trouble than pigs in good flesh and healthy specimens.  Good, dry, warm, comfortable sleeping houses, well ventilated and so arranged as to prevent crowding and piling up, will, I think, do more to prevent pneumonia than any other one thing.  Some such preparation as advocated by the Government for the prevention of hog cholera will help keep the stock in a good healthy condition, the better to combat exposure.  It is the little attentions that keep the herd healthy and in a vigorous condition, and by using simple preventatives, remedies will he found unnecessary. — H. B. Wintringham.

General Prescription for Hog Sickness.

My hogs seem to be mangy and scabby, but am unable to find any lice on them.  They eat well, but vomit a good deal and are falling off in flesh.

They may be affected with a chronic type of cholera, and this should be determined by some one who can see the hogs.  Make a general cleaning up of the hogs and quarters, using a dip and repeating in ten days.  Hogs have a true mange as well as other animals.  A change of feed may also be needed, depending on what is being fed and how the hogs are managed.  Green alfalfa pasture with a moderate feed of shorts or middlings of wheat and ground barley made into a slop would be a good ration.  Evidently there is some digestive trouble here, and a dose of croton oil (3 drops) mixed in a teaspoonful of raw linseed oil for each hog would be beneficial.  Charcoal, ashes, salt and a little epsom salts would be of benefit to tone the digestion.  The oil should be carefully mixed in the slop.

Pigs Out of Condition.

Of a litter of pigs weaned about a month several of them have itchy scabs on their legs, ears and noses, and those having white feet show reddish spots through the hoofs.  They did not get it until after they were weaned.  They are fed on soaked whole barley and have alfalfa pasture.

Put the pigs on a slop composed of wheat middlings and barley ground fine, with the hulls removed, and milk, or, in the absence of milk about 8 or 10 per cent of meat meal to which add some good stock food.  Dip them with some standard brand of dip or apply crude oil to be sure that they were free from lice, fleas, etc.  Give them good, clean, comfortable sleeping quarters and trust to nature to do the rest.