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tion. The method is regarded as inexpensive and easily apjthed and also as of <,'re^t 

 efficiency. 



Sulphate of iron as a preventive of foot-and-mouth, disease, (J. Teis.vnu 

 {Jour. Agr. Prat., n. .str., 5 [1903), No. 17, p. 538). — This remedy was nsed as a wash 

 in preventing a contagion of foot-and-mouth disease during an outbreak of this 

 plague. The animals thus treated did not develop the disease. 



Tympanites, E. Ruhvedel [Jour. Khedir. Agr. Soc. and School Agr., 4 {1902), 

 No. 5. pp. 189, 190). — Brief notes on tympanites as caused by feeding on berseem and 

 other related jilants. The usual remedies for this affection are recommended. 



Tests of fly preventives, J. B. Lindsey {Massachusetts Sta. Rpt. 190-2, pp. 61-03) . — 

 A test was made of a number of ijrojirietary remedies for keeping flies away frf)m cat- 

 tle and horses. These remedies included Sure Thing, Cattle Comfort, Stop Fly, Nor- 

 wood Sanitary Fluid, Flylene, Shoo Fly, Fli Fly Chaser, Eureka, Rippley's Fly 

 Eemover, and CH'pher's Anti-Fly Paste. The results obtained from the use of these 

 remedies on cattle and horses indicate that while a number of the i^reparations are 

 quite efficient in keeping the flies away from the animals, the cost is so great as to be 

 almost prohibitive. 



Some diseases of sheep, T. W. Cave {Jour. Southeast. Agr. Col. Wye, 1903, No. 

 12, pp. 86-95) . — Notes on a number of bacterial and parasitic diseases, including teta- 

 nus, gid, and tapeworms, together with an account of blackleg, which is referred to 

 in jiarts of England under the term "struck." Attention is called to the desirability 

 of exercising antiseptic precautions in the x^revention of tetanus. For reducing the 

 prevalence of gid it is necessary to destroy the heads of infested sheep in order that 

 they may not be eaten by dogs. 



Heartwater in sheep and goats, D. Hutcheox {Agr. Jour. Cape Good Hope, 22 

 {1903), N(t. 4, pp. 838-843). — A method of vaccination against this disease was devised 

 by Dr. Purvis, and the veterinary department of Cape Colony was questioned regard- 

 ing the value of this system of vaccination. A test by the department indicated that 

 the method was no more efficacious than that in use by the departme::t veterinarians. 

 Notes are given on the special facts which have been demonstrated in connection 

 with tlie etiology and treatment of this disease. 



Scab in sheep, D. p]. Salmon and C. W. Stiles ( [/. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 

 159, pp. 4S,figs. 17). — A condensed form of Bulletin 21, revised, of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry (E. S. R., 10, p. 793). 



Some of our commoner localinternal parasitic diseases of sheep, W. H.Dal- 

 rvmple {Louisiana Stas. Bui. 74, 2- ser., pp. 216-231, figs. 2). — The sheep botfly some- 

 times occurs in such large numbers as to cause a great irritation and loss of flesh. 

 The author found 42 larvae of this insect in a single sheep. Notes are given on the 

 adult and larval condition of the insect and on the symptoms produced by its pres- 

 ence in the nasal passages of the sheep. The remedies recommended are largely 

 I^reventive and include smearing tar or fish oil upon the nose of the sheep, together 

 with the destruction of the heads of infested sheep after slaughter. A brief account 

 is also given of Taniia e.rpansa — the common tapeworm of sheep — and on the stomach 

 worm {Strongylus contortus). The author discusses the habits and life history of 

 these species. 



Especial attention was devoted to a study of the nodular disease of sheep, due to 

 the presence of (Esoj^hagostoma columbianum in the walls of the intestines. These 

 worms are so protected by their position that direct remedies are of little avail. The 

 only means of checking their spread is found in the adoption of jireventive measures. 

 Experiments were made for the purpose of determining whether pastures may be 

 readily infected by the presence of sheep infested with this parasitic worm. It was 

 found that sheep affected with nodular disease, when placed on a clean pasture, 

 readily infected this land with the parasites which cause the disease. Healthy lambs 

 when allowed to graze upon such land soon became affected from this exposure. 



