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Show DEPRAVED APPETITE. By Dr Frederick, A. C. U. This disease generally occurs as a symptom of some other disease but may occur as a result of feeding faulty ration, one that is deficient in earthly salts. Lack of exercise and digestive disorders may also produce (his condition. The treatment consists in adding to the ration whatever elements it is deficient in. The feeding of charcoal, salt, wood-ashes, etc., may supply the elements needed and relieve the condition. When a sow fonns the habit of eating her pigs she should not be used for breeding purposes as it is very difficult to overcome this abnormal ab-normal appetite. Thumps in Young Pigs. This is a condition that is very common in young pigs. It is due to an irritated condition of the nerves going to the diaphram, the partition between the lungs and the intestines. Digestive disorders, especially the over-loading of the stomach, and lack of exercise are the main causes. It often happens that a large number cf pigs in the same litter and same pen arc attacked with this condition when too closely confined. The most prominent symptom is the sudden jerking movement of the flanks. This is noticeable when the pig is standing quiet and may occur cither regularly or irregularly and are most frequent when the stomach is full. The preventative treatment of thumps in young pigs is good care pnd plenty of crcrcisc. Exercise alone will very often effect a cure. A 'When this disease appears in a litter of pigs they should be turned on pas turc and given plenty of opportunity to run about. However, if this cannot can-not be done, they should be exercised exer-cised in some other way as pfocincc them in another pen .or away from the mother. The spasms can often be relieved " l:y tincture of opium, from three to fifteen drop doses, three times a day, depending on the size of the animal. Small doses of castor oil should also be given to prevent constipation. The old sow should not be allowed to get too fat before farrowing time. By observing the above precautions it is highly probable that thumps can be prevented and overcome. When a cow is hard to milk we often find that the milk duct in the 1 end of the teat is very poorly devel- m oped, thus allowing only a very m small stream to pass. Where this is the case the opening can be with ; teat expander or a milk tube, care should be taken that the instrument j used for this purpose is well steri- 1 lized and that the end of the teat is also cleaned. One of these teat dila- tors can be passed up and then an I expansion produced by forcing the I plunger into the dilator. This should I not all be done at once hut should ' be done gradually, day by day, until the opening is of sufficient size to Jet a full flow pass. , o |