Show anemia among suckling pigs can be prevented last year the wisconsin experiment station told us that lack lach of iron and copper in the sows bows milk caused anemia in suckling pigs and that feeding these two minerals in suitable compounds to the pigs would prevent the disease in the preliminary investigations iron and copper were fed once dally daily says the prairie farmer we are ax now told that I 1 feeding a pig milligrams of iron ferric sulphate and 25 milligrams of copper copper sulphate once a week will prevent the disease druggists can make these solutions and tell you how huchto much to feed to give each pig the above quantities of the required minerals at the illinois station it has been found that applying a solution containing iron and copper to the teats of the sow once or twice dally daily will prevent the disease A corn solution made by dissolving grams of copper sulphate in a half liter of water slowly adding with shaking grams of powdered ferric citrate after the solution ilon Is brought to a boll then adding a pint of corn to the mixture was found especially easy to use |