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Remedial Measures. — It may be truly said that while it is com- 

 paratively easy, by the carrying out of the measures previously indicated, 

 to keep sheep free from worms, it is a heart-breaking and patience-taxing 

 struggle to get a mob in order again that has got low from worms or 

 fluke. 



So far as fluke is concerned a flock should never be given the chance 

 of getting emaciated or poor from it. Whenever, by the observance of 

 any of the usual symptoms (which in regard to fluke as also in regard to 

 other parasitic affections of sheep are too well known to need recapitula- 

 tion in an article of this character), it becomes known that the sheep are 

 infected with fluke, advantage should be taken of the fact, that in the first 

 stages of the trouble they thrive exceptionally well, to draft them off to 

 the butcher before the wasting stage commences. When the flukes first 

 invade the liver their presence stimulates an increased flow of bile whereby 

 for a time the process of digestion is greatly assisted, and consequently a 

 fattening tendency is promoted. This fact is so well known that many 

 years ago it was seriously proposed in England (and actually put into 

 practice by some breeders) to artificially infest sheep with fluke so as to 

 quickly fatten them. If the sheep are closely watched and preliminary 

 fattening noted, not much loss will result ; but once this stage is past, 

 and emaciation with its accompanying dropsy sets in, no remedial treatment 

 is of much avail in arresting the " rot." Where it is possible to treat 

 sheep individually or where stud sheep are concerned, the following pre- 

 scription may be used : — 



Powdered oak bark. 

 ,, calamus root. 



,, gentian root. 



,, juniper berries of each i lb. 



,, sulphate of iron, J lb. 



,, common salt, 2 lbs. for sheep; 3 lbs for lambs. 



Mix dry and give at the rate of a teaspoonful per sheep once a day mixed 

 with a feed of chaffed ensilage or green oats, bran, crushed oats or chaffed 

 hay. 



As regards stomach, intestinal and lung worms medicinal treatment is 

 greatly aided by the provision of artificial fodder ; in fact, the cure of a 

 mob is less certain, and certainlv more troublesome, by the use of drenches, 

 than by changing them on to lightly-stccked artificial feed such as young 

 oats, rape, prairie, rye, or other sown grass, or by giving them a liberal 

 allowance of chaffed hay or ensilage strengthened with crushed oats or 

 bran. The latter course has to be frequently adopted because it is difiicult 

 to get the artificial pastures mentioned in the green state during the months 

 when treatment is most often wanted, viz., January and February, unless 

 its requirement has been anticipated, as it should be on a well-managed 

 sheep farm. Especially is this artificial feeding needed as a help in treat- 

 ment when it is found that lambs are affected at weaning time. 



Worm Drenches. — (i) T/ie Arsenic drench. — For stomach worms (the 

 " thread " worm or H amonchiis contortus) and intestinal worms (the sheep 

 tape worm or Moniezia). The dose of arsenic is about 2 grains for a 

 grown sheep, \\ grains for a weaner and up to i grain for a lamb: 



White arsenic, 2 ozs. avoirdupois. 

 Washing soda, 4 ozs. ,, 



Water, i gallon. 



