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Show Clean House Essential for Success With Pigs A clean iiog house is the first requisite requi-site In connection with raising a healthy crop of pigs, says the Nebraska Nebras-ka Agricultural college. Merely scraping, scrap-ing, shoveling and sweeping the dirt out of a shed does not make that shed safe for new-born pigs. Hound-worm eggs and filth-born disease germs which are the sources of our most destructive pig troubles are microscopic micro-scopic in sv.e and thousands of them may be contained in the dirt and filth which can only be removed by washing. The only "way to destroy worm eggs is to boil them. A good disinfectant will destroy the germs which cause bull-nose, mange, pig typhoid, etc. To make the hog house safe, scruli it witli boiling lye water. The lye will cut the dirt. Then spray all posts and walls with a solution of liquid cresolis (:!0 to 1) and put In fresh clean bedding. |