6o BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



It was the ignorance of the man. He simply did not know 

 how to administer the dose. I have seen them grab a sheep 

 and throw it down, and then try to ram the bottle down the 

 sheep's throat, ram it down as far as they could and pour 

 that down the sheep. I have heard men say it is almost im- 

 possible to give medicine to sheep, but that is not so at all. 

 The right way is this : Take a sheep and simply set it up as 

 though }ou were going to shear it. Then you do not have to 

 elevate its head, but simply put the hand under its muzzle like 

 that, and the sheep will almost drink the medicine right down 

 out of the bottle. Shake the bottle at times, keep the bottom 

 well up. and pour it down. If you pursue -that course, then 

 you can dose them with anything you wish. 



Now there is another thing about the gasolene treatment. 

 Gasolene is of a gassy nature, — and perhaps I ought to say 

 that there is practically little or no difiference, so far as the 

 effect is concerned, between the creolin or creosote, call it 

 whichever you are a mind to, because the destruction of the 

 stomach worm is accomplished, but I have been convinced 

 by experiments, and without going into details, that the gaso- 

 lene by itself, being of a gaseous nature, will permeate into 

 the intestines to an extent that the other will not. I have been 

 convinced that no other remedy at present known is apt to 

 reach these lung worms. Now in case a sheep has all three of 

 these worms I have described, we would probably entirely 

 destroy all three by giving creolin. You may have read this. 

 It has been published in the papers, but they sometimes get 

 things wrong. The creosote or creolin treatment, and that is 

 the way it is called in the drug stores, is usually given a tea- 

 spoonful at a time in half a pint of water, the mixture being 

 shaken up well, and then it will stay mixed. It is usually given 

 and it will destroy stomach worms. 



After a flock of sheep has been treated in this way they 

 can safely be relied upon as free of worms. If you use the 

 gasolene treatment it is better to give it three mornings in 

 succession. Feed them very early at night, and then give 

 them a dose in the morning before they are fed. Follow that 

 up for three mornings, and you will get rid of fully ninety 

 per cent, of the nodular and stomach worms. Then we have 

 safetv. 



