Show vermin discourage hogs from returning profit vermin such as worms 1102 and the like may keep the hogs from growing and cost the far farmer farmerly merln in dollars and cents much more than the time and expense of fighting them according to the new york state college of agriculture at ithaca in fact the college goes further and says that most farms where hogs have been kept for any length of time on the same premises are infested with parasites which will give trouble if they are not controlled there are several kinds of worms that infest hogs and ench each kind requires a different treatment tf hogs are suspected of being infested with worms the owners should get in touch with a veterinarian the college states one farmer of which I ilch the college learned had about 70 head of pigs averaging between 50 and 75 pounds these pigs became stunted and made very little gains and some of them died upon inspection they were found badly infested with round worms and wath lice they were lvere then successfully cess fully treated as advised by a veterinarian eri these pigs were also treated for lice a prepared dip in a large barrel being u used sed the pigs were small enough to be easily handled and were immersed in the barrel of dip this treatment was wag repeated in a weeks time to get the tha lice or nits aits that were left ett from the previous dipping they were then transferred to a fresh pasture where they were ivere finished for the early fall market |