Show MASS TREATMENT FOR FO R HOG WORMS recent experiments at the IOWA state college have shown that OHIS mass treatment of ten or twenty hogs at a time for worms Is just as effective individual treatment and vastly easier the method was as follows the pigs were starred for one whole flay day receiving nothing but water in the evening they received the dose of worm medicine pure Banto mixed with a thin slop lop the amount of Is if small but this Is easily mixed uniformly in the slop flop by shaking up la in a bottle with milk or water and pouring along the trough all night the pigs received no water but the next morning they were given iven a drink of epsom gaits baits solution as a purge about a quarter of a pound to two gallons of water glenber glauber salts would do as well in another hour they were given a regular morning feed results showed a great many worms As far as could be told the pigs receiving the mass treatment lost as many worms as other lots adjoining which received the individual treatment in order to be certain talu however the experimenters waited 21 days long enough for any worn worm eggs to incubate and then gave another treatment extra strong not a worm or a sign of one was found either from the individual treatment or the mass treatment scale of dosage was based based on two grains of pure for a 25 pound pig and one grain additional for each additional 25 pounds thus a io pig received three grains a 75 pound pig four grains mass treatment cannot be given with any drug except santo |