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Show LICE ON HCTGS." H. M. Cottrcll, Director Farmers' Institutes, Colorado, writes about lice on hogs: A stockman new in the hog business, busi-ness, bought several sows. lie built good shelter and gave them good feed a"nd care. They had 150 pigs and all of these but twelve died before wonliing time. After 138 had died a veterinarian was called to find what disease was killing the pigs and he found that they had all been killed by lice. They were covered with vermin. The writer inspected a herd! of 300 hogs that had the run of an alfalfa field and were also fed grain. They had a greyhound appearance, with rough hair and were not over half so heavy as they should hayc been.. After Af-ter looking them over the writer remarked re-marked that the lice were stunting the hogs. The owner insisted that there was not a single louse on the whole herd. Several hogs were caught and wore found to be nearly covered with lice. Instances of this kind are the rult, rather than the exception. Whenever a pig has good fcodl and surroundings surround-ings and is not thriving, look for lice. Vermin will usually be found - --- -- - to i'c the cause of the lack of thrift I A groat many of the losses laid to cholera, worms and mysterious dis- cases arc actually the work of lico. H The best cure and preventive is I regular dipping, using sjbmc of the m coal tar dips so extensively adver- m tiscd and sold. When pigs arc found M to be lousy, dip twice, ten days apart, A and then once a month through the H year. Dipping with coal tardips not J only kill the vermin, but keeps the M skin and hair in a healthful Condition 9 that is worth the cost of the opera- J tion aside from killing the lice. H 0 I The most convenient method is to m sink a galvanized iron vat, .'the top I level with the ground, and leave a w 4 shutc leading from the hog lot to the a vat and another from the dipping I board to the lot. I The dipping mixture can be kept in - the vat all the time and be protected ; by a cover when hogs are not being j dipped. With such an arrangement i it is a short and easy job to ltip 50 1 to 200 hogs. The dipping mixture will need to be changed three or four times a year. Where only a few pigs arc kept they may be treated by washing them F thoroughly with a cloth or sponge a wet with the dipping solution. 1 Besides dipping, the hogs should I ImcJfchort posts set for thtm in I their rd and pastures. Wrap the postsfth old potato or bran sacks B and (ffliei a week saturate these sacks I with SSc oil. A louse bites the hog, 9 he nKhc spot on the sack and the '1 oil killsi the louse. 1 1 ffl Wlanf hogs arc found to be lousy, thciwslccping, feeding and resting J placcagnould be thoroughly cleaned, J all Riding burned and these places if sprimclcl or sponged with the dip- ptngtaniixturcs. M PiStgiTant sows should not be run m ' m threnrgh the dipping vat. A When a pure-bred pig is purchased I and brought to the farm, it should ( be examined audi if found lousy, treated before being turned with other oth-er swine. There arc hundreds of in- stances where a single lousy pig sent 1 out by a reputable breeder has in a- 1 hort time stocked a whole herd with I I lice |