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pose here to further report, in advance, the results than to say that 

 they indicate that the pulp is too valuable a material to allow to go 

 to waste. You are already acquainted with the record of our former 

 experiments and I need but to refer you to the bulletin already issued 

 on the feeding value of raw pulp. 



Dried pulp is being made at Alma and Bay City and we have found 

 that it contains a little over seven per cent of water, with eight and one- 

 half per cent of protein and 20 per cent of crude fiber. Our sheep are 

 eating the pulp with avidity, and we hope to publish in the early sum- 

 mer the results of our experiments with this material. At present I 

 have nothing to report except that the stock are fond of it. Other sta- 

 tions have been feeding beet pulp with good success, Colorado being con- 

 spicuous in this matter. Their experimenters found the beet pulp to be 

 worth at least $1.00 per ton for their purpose, and are inclined to com- 

 mend it highly to all stock feeders of that state. 



PARASITIC DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



BY DR. GEORGE A. WATERMAN_, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



In discussing this subject, "The Parasitic Diseases of Sheep," I shall 

 confine myself to a discussion of the internal parasites, and of these I 

 shall speak of but four. The first is the 



STOMACH WORM. 



This is from three-fourths to an inch in length and generally of a red- 

 dish color, when seen in the stomach; it is found in the fourth stomach, 

 which is cone-shaped and opens into the small intestine. When pres- 

 ent in large numbers they cause a disease known as Stomach Worm 

 Disease. 



The disease is most frequently met with in lambs, from August until 

 the following March. Older sheep are sometimes affected to a greater 

 or less extent, but they seem to be better able to resist the effects of 

 the worms than the lambs. When found in small numbers they produce 

 no noticeable effect. 



The life history of this parasite is not entirely known, but it is quite 

 certain that the lambs become infested by taking the immature worm, 

 or the egg, along with its food or w^ater; the pasture and drinking 

 places becoming infested from the droppings of the old sheep, although 

 they may not manifest any symptoms of the disease. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms are not entirely diagnostic, as we get the 

 same symptoms with other diseases, and especially with other para- 

 sitic disorders which affect the intestinal tract. Generally the first 

 thing noticed is that the lamb becomes unthrifty, and is sometimes 

 affected with a cough; after a time it becomes listless, does not follow 

 the flock, becomes very poor, may have diarrhoea and finally is unable to 

 get up, and dies. During a greater part of the time the appetite remains 



