84 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



We have a great deal of trouble in Ohio, and in fact I think 

 more than you do here, because we have a worse climate than 

 you for resisting parasitic infection. Many of the diseases of 

 the sheep come from the stomach worm. When the lambs in 

 the summer time begin to scour, and the wool gets loose and the 

 eyes look weak and blurred, and they go around in a half life- 

 less condition many times, the trouble is nothing but stomach 

 worm. They die and you bury them. Over in England they 

 have more trouble than we do. I have been over there and I 

 have noticed some of their methods. I noticed that they 

 changed the sheep from one field to another frequently. I 

 asked one shepherd about that, and he said, " Why, sir, we do 

 not dare to let our lambs sleep two nights on the same ground." 

 One time I saw a flock and they had a fence around some oak 

 trees in the pasture, so that the sheep could not get under it. 

 I asked the shepherd, " Why don't you let the sheep get under 

 those trees ? " and I found out the reason. I didn't blame the 

 shepherd, but it was not that at all. There was apparently no 

 objection to letting them lie underneath that tree where there 

 was thick green grass, but the fact was that there they got a 

 little throat worm, which works on the sheep, and they had 

 learned by experience that they must not let the sheep lie under- 

 neath that tree. 



We change our flock from one field to another and not let 

 them run all summer in one place. By doing that we have had 

 apparently no trouble with parasites. 



Mr. Brown. How often do you change these flocks from 

 one lot to another? 



Mr. Wing. I should say they ought to be changed as oft^n 

 as once in ten days. 



I would like to tell you a little about our fodder. Of course, 

 we have to grow fodder for the sheep in the winter. One of 

 our strongholds is alfalfa. That grows high up, and it has this 

 advantage in connection with this matter, that we have just 

 been talking about, that they do not get the germ of the stomach 



