58 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



is something that is really amazing. Young animals, and the 

 same may be said of children, are afflicted the most with worms 

 of all kinds. When those w'orms get into a lamb they accumu- 

 late in larger numbers in the lamb than anywhere else. Now 

 the flock will go well with the lambs until about weaning 

 time, and then from that time they will begin to decline. I 

 have had men write to me, " \\niat is the matter with my 

 lambs? They seem to be weak. They seem to be running 

 down. I feed them well, but they seem to be going back. 

 What is the reason of that ? "" It is simply because they are 

 worm infected. Xow let us reason a little about these w'orms. 

 So far as has been ascertained thus far, the average life of 

 any one of the worm family is only one year. Now we will 

 suppose that those sheep were turned out to pasture. W^hile 

 they are in the barn the}- are usually doing no harm by infect- 

 ing the lambs before birth or after birth, especially if the 

 lambs are born in February or ]\Iarch. Before we turn the 

 flock out to pasture we should try to rid the old sheep of the 

 trouble. We should treat the old sheep to get rid of the worms 

 that will later on infect the lambs. How^ will you do it? 

 There have been a great many experiments carried on at our 

 experimental farms in New York, and I do not know but it 

 has been the same with you. Today, however, it has simmered 

 down practically to two remedies which can be used. With 

 the gasolene treatment, w-ith one thorough application, fifty 

 per cent, of them can be destroyed. The second should destroy 

 at least seventy-five per cent., and the third dose will destroy 

 practically ninety-five per cent, of those worms. The gasolene 

 treatment stands toda}', in my judgment, ahead of any other. 

 The next one is a cold tar product, and is called creosote or 

 creolin. If the sheep are dosed with that previous to being 

 turned out to pasture the old sheep will be pretty free of the 

 disease. I know by experience that that is so. I have lost a 

 lot of sheep with worms. I have learned that to be successful 

 some treatment for this difficulty in the spring is absolutely 

 essential. I have learned to give them a dose of gasolene 

 before they are turned out to pasture. A dose of gasolene is a 

 tablespoonful. A dose of the creolin is one teaspoonful. Now 

 if I was to stop right there and simply say, give your sheep this 

 treatment before turning them out to pasture, a tablespoonful 

 of gasolene, you might use it, but I wall guarantee you would 



