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Show i LIVE STOCK I ! FACTS j SANiTAfiY SWC;E PRODUCTION Common Intestinal Round Worms Largely Responsible for the High Death Pate Among Pigs. (Proi.areil by t:n- L'niloil stales Department of Agriculture.) What makes the difference between thrifty pigs and unthrifty ones? Naturally, Nat-urally, there are many causes, including- breeding, feeding and shelter, hut a main out; and one that may easily be overcome is worms the common Intestinal In-testinal round worms. These parasites are often largely responsible for the high death rate among young pigs, and many eases of so-called thumps are the result of worm infection. The average farmer, possibly, would give a great deal to be able to srop this loss. Hut a new and effective method of worm eradication, devised by the I'nl led Slates department of Agriculture Agricul-ture -and tised with success by members mem-bers of the McLean county (111.) farm bureau, is available to any farmer who is willing to go to a little trouble, or who visited the government exhibit at the International live stock exposition exposi-tion hold at Chicago, November 20 to December 3. There were shown for comparison a pen of wormy pigs and a pen of pigs raised free from worms; the worms themselves, alive and wriggling, wrig-gling, were also on exhibition. In one i v - 1 ?n - v . t ' ? - 5 1 it v t Z A Litter of McLean County (Illinois) Pigs Raised Under the Worm-Free Plan. pen was a litter of six pigs that gained during a certain period, because of the parasites, only 171 pounds; in a neighboring neigh-boring pen was another six-pig litter kept on the same feed as the wormy litter, but raised without worms that gained 332 pounds In the same length of time. This system of swine sanitation to eradicate worms is simplicity itself. First it is necessary to clean the far-.rowing far-.rowing pens with hot water and lye. Then wash the dirt from the skins of Ihe sows before fai'rowing and put them in the clean pens. Within two weeks after farrowing remove the sows and pigs to a clean pasture, and keep Ihe young pigs on clean pasture for at least four months. In order to produce strong, healthy, profitable pigs it is, of course, necessary that 'hey have good feed, water and shel-ler shel-ler in addition to worm-free surroundings. |