Show preventing thumps will insure little porkers corkers many cases of thumps in pigs are due dud to the pres presence fence tn in the young stage singe of the worm in the lungs these worms mature in the intestines the rhe young are taken in with wat water er and feed in infected hog pens lo 10 lots is etc then they ikass by blood vesse vessels Is to the lungs and there irritate and sometimes infect the lungs producing some som type of inflammation the young worm ls coughed up into the throat then lt it Pits passes ses by swallowing down the esophagus to the stomach and intestines te where this matures matur es and thus completes the life cycle to prevent infestation in pigs wash and disinfect the brood sow just a few days before she Is to farrow and remove her to a place where no hogs have been or to a clean and dis infected farrowing furrowing far rowing pen after the pigs are born keep them out of and away from all old pens and places where old hogs have ben been until the pigs are tour four months old then they will be safe for growing into pork hogs at eight to twelve months of age |