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hoot me off this platform if I ever came here again, because 

 I will guarantee that the first sheep you tried it on you would 

 have trouble on, and you would not go through the flock. 

 There is a right way and a wrong way of using the treat- 

 ment. There is a right way and a safe way, of giving gasolene. 

 Put into that tablespoonful about two tablespoonfuls of raw 

 linseed oil, and then add to that at least four tablespoonfuls of 

 milk. I do not care if you make it a half pint of milk. I do 

 not care how much milk you put in. Some of the experiment 

 stations in the West have said to use gasolene and milk. I 

 would not dare say that on the platform or say it through 

 the press or privately. I would not dare to mix gasolene with 

 milk and give it to sheep because there is too much of a fiery 

 nature in it, and if any mistake was made it woiild be apt to 

 kill the sheep. ]vlix the gasolene first with oil. The oil acts 

 also in another way. It is a mild cathartic, and when the gaso- 

 lene affects the worm a little cathartic crowds him out of his 

 home and the first thing he knows he is on the earth. The oil 

 takes off the fiery effect. Xow I said there was a right way 

 and a wrong way to mix gasolene. First, mix it up in that pro- 

 portion so that the sheep will get a tablespoonful. I do not 

 care how you make it, but put in two tablespoonfuls of raw 

 linseed oil, and at least four tablespoonfuls of milk, or more, 

 if you wish. Put it up in a bottle, and keep the bottle tipped 

 up until the' dose goes down the sheep's throat. Of course, 

 some have difficulty in administering the dose. I have been 

 called out of the State of Xew York to see flocks of sheep 

 that were dying, and I tell you I have learned a lot of 

 things about human nature along this line. One of the things 

 which I have done in such cases has been to fix up a dose and 

 then say to the man whose sheep I was inspecting. " Now, 



Mr. will you please give this sheep this dose," and what 



have I seen? I have seen a two hundred-pound man grab a 

 seventy-five pound lamb, get him up, and raise his head so 

 high that the lamb could not swallow to save his soul if he 

 had one. He would kick and struggle because when the man 

 had elevated his head above certain degrees of elevation it 

 became impossible for that lamb to swallow or breathe, and 

 the man was simply strangling him to death. And then the 

 man would say, " Confound that gasolene treatment, it has 

 killed my sheep." Now it was not the fault of the treatment. 



