Show Fighting Hog Influenza The basic treatment of Influenza In n hogs Is withholding the feed and protecting the herd against expos- expos ure re If the onset of the disease Is 19 sudden udden and a large percentage of the he hogs stricken within a few days all 11 of the feed should be withheld If It the e outbreak Is less virulent the sick ick hogs should be separated from the ie apparently well ones and the latter alter animals fed only what they are re able to eat in about 30 minutes twice dally daily It Is not possible to find suitable quarters on all farms for a herd of f sick hogs During the cool or orold cold old weather when outbreaks of the disease commonly occur a deep bed of f straw and clean well ventilated quarters free from drafts should be provIded for the entire herd A Adeep Adeep deep shed open on one side only Ismore la Is lamore s smore more satisfactory than the tho farrowIng farrowing farrow- farrow Ing ng or ho hog house They should be confined to these quarters until they are re back on feed It Is usually ad ad- v visible to sort out the animals that show how symptoms of ot pneumonia before before be- be fore ore Increasing the feed and turning turn turn- Ing ng out the well animals Indiana Indiana Farmers Farmer's Gul Guide Dosing Wormy Lambs One of the lambs lamb's worst enemies Is s the tile common stomach worm The anImal does not thrive satisfactorily satisfactorily when carrying this parasite and nd consequently the farmer loses money One way to avoid old these worms Is to change pasture so 80 there here will be he little danger of ot the lambs ambs picking up worm eggs deposited deposed depos depose ed on the grass last I year by other sheep Sheep can be treated for worms with a Some farmers dose oso each animal with one to four ounces of ol a 1 per cent copper copner sulphate sul- sul phate hate solution This solution Is made by dissolving one-fourth one pound of f copper sulphate in three gallons of f water Ewes receive from Crom two to o four ounces depending on their size Ize while lambs get one ono to two ounces Dose with an ordinary s syringe or with the aid of ot a funnel or r small rubber tube Care should be e ta taken en not to lift the sheep's head up p since this may cause Wallaces Wallace's lon Wallace's Wallaces Farmer |