| Show will kill nodular avor worms common insect of hogs present on most farms youve you ve heard so much about swine roundworms that you may think they are the only internal par arites that cause hog losses it if so you re wrong you re overlooking the nodular worm the USDA says the nodular worm Is perhaps the most common worm parasite of swine and that in some states practically all hogs raised under ordinary conditions may be infected research workers in animal para are beg aming to suspect that nodular worm injury to hogs is far greater than was heretofore believed nodular worm infections cause co considerable losses to the meat industry because the intes tines studded with nodules result ing from nodular worm injury are r av this plywood self feeder containing will aid in ridding hogs of nodular worms weak and tear easily and this destroys their value for use as cas ings these losses of course are passed along to the hog raiser in the form of lower prices hogs entertain four species of nodular worms the nodular worm gets to be only about a half inch long hence is not as readily seen as the roundworm which gets to be as thick as a lead pencil and more than a foot long hog raisers see ing roundworms may blame them for trouble caused by the smaller harder to see nodular worms is the only effective remedy for removing nodular worms it destroys more than 90 per cent of them is easily given in feed in fact that is the safest way for a hog raiser to administer it cattle horn fly trap considerable success has been at bained in australia using a horn fly trap constructed in a gateway or lane through which the cattle must pass once or twice a day the pas gageway through the trap is 33 inches wide and feet long the glass in the root roof is coated on the inside with DDT and protected from the cattle by coarse screen type of cattle horn fly trap rec commended om mended by macdonald college wire the animal passing through the trap has to brush between and under two sets of curtains and eight weighted strips brush her legs and belly dislodging the flies which rise to the light and contact the treated glass gains foothold on range is a febrile infer bious disease transmitted from sick or carrier cattle or by ticks horse flies and other biting insects young animals are seldom affected the treatment is still in the ex pen peri mental stage and is largely a veterinary problem animals at flirted with the malady should be kept in the shade given plenty of clean water a little green feed and protected against flies intro venous injection of mercurochrome has been used with success as well as a modified sodium treatment remedy for black rot disease among grapes use of bordeau mixture 4 44 4 plus one pound of rosin fish oil soap P per er gallons of spray mixture is reco recommended amended for those vineyards where black rot and downy mildew have been serious this spray is applied just before bloom just after bloom and two weeks after bloom if rainfall is above normal it may be necess aary to make a fourth application two weeks ater afler the third treatment |
