Show ERADICATE TE HOG LOUSE vigorous and patient Treat treatment men t Is required bloodsucking blood sucking ag parasites parasite cause much irritation of skin in n dipping careoline Cr eoline Is better than urno lima and sulphur dy H 0 MATO the hog louse Is a common parasitic post on swine and one that requires vigorous and patient treatment to eradicate the hog lovse louse la Is ono one ot of ilia largest of bf tile lice that attacks domestic animals they are readily icon een traveling about on the bristles usually on tile tho neck back of the cars moving with a peculiar sliding motion modon mos mes tho the eggs or alta jilt s are arc small white oval bodies attached to the bristles hog lice may bo be found on almost any part of the animals be body ly bai pi are most common about the nock neck ears and back of 0 the elbow these are bloodsucking blood sucking parasites and by biting tile tha hog and abstracting blood they cause a good deal of irritation of tile the skin the animal rubs on posts and other objects and the coat looks rough and harsh harah the parasite and eggs are easily found upon examination tho the parasites are transmitted from ono one animal to another by contact or by contact with infected bedding or quarters dipping the animals three or four times at intervals Inter of ton ten days will usually free them from these parasites I 1 Z I 1 P V I 1 vat for hoes royl ded the sleeping quarters are thoroughly roughly ho cleaned and dis infected in dipping to kill lice th tho e coal tar dips aipa ot tho the type are than lime and sulphur suli fiur if iao liffe wallows allows tv are are kept well failed with water to which nome of the crool lue slips are added every ten tea days the tha swine will usually free themselves f from r ora the lice another good way of combating the parasites la is to tie gunny gunnysacks sacks or other coa coarse pie clotho rayni rubbing posts ano and keep these koths with crude there are many coal tar dips on the market they aro are mado made from the products of the distill distillation atlon of coal tar and havo a variety ot of trade names v allne la Is ono one of ghego preparations rhoy ore are all dark colored liquids with a strong coal tar odor and when mixed M axed with water form a milky white or dr slightly brownish emulsion we have tried several kinds with excellent results practically all druggists haya these thebo dips but we ave would dato using a dip made by a well known and reliable firm these dips should bo be used at the strength of one ond part of the dip to forty or fifty parts ot of water if rain water Is obtainable tai it is preferred to hard water these dips should be used war warm in thero thern should be a dipping vat on every hog farm eliy may mav be mado made of at wood galvanized iron or cement they rhey are set in the ground at a convenient place BO that there Is good I 1 surface drainage dral nago away from the vat A good size for u largo large vat is ten feet long on top eight feet long on the bottom and two feet wide on hortop top the end where tile tho hogs enter should bo be perpendicular and the othor other end inclined with cleats so BO that tho the hogs bogs can emerge after s swimming through the entrance should be by a slide such a tank la Is very useful hogs bogs are kept in numbers as frequent dipping tends to keep the hogs bog healthy nd and freo free from parasites |