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Show Remedy for Worms Intestinal worms are common in hogs and are particularly injurious in-jurious to growing pigs. Insufficiently Insuf-ficiently fed, neglected pigs living liv-ing in dirty pens and yards, fed from filthy troughs, drinking contaminated water, bathing in old hog wallows, and rooting and sleeping in manure piles and stack bottoms, soon become infected in-fected with worms; consequently they do not thrive, but develop into pot-belied, ricketty, profitless profit-less runts. Pens should be kept clean and' dry and the manure ma-nure frequently removed. The following treatment has been found to be very effective against intestinal worms in experiments'- conducted by the Zoological Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry: Withhold all feed and water for 24 hours, then give each pig from 1 to 4 ounces of castor oil to which has been addec oil of American wormseed as follows: Small pigs, 2 to 3 months old, 35 drops; pigs weighing 50 to 100 pounds, 50 to 100 drps: larger pigs, 1 teaspoonful. Each pig should be dosed separately if the best results are to be obtained. Repeat the treatment in 10 days. |