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tlj.aline, given twice a day during a week, in from 10 to 15 grain doses^ 

 alone, or mixed with powdered gentian. 



Tlio following recipes, to be used as licks, may be useful in small 

 flocks : 



Take of sulphate of iron, 2 ounces; calamus root, 1 pound ; of crushed 

 oiits and roasted barley malt, of each, 20 quarts. This quantity is 

 sufficient for one hundred sheep. Other mixed grain may be substi- 

 tuted for the barley-malt and oats. Or, sulphate of iron, 1 ounce, and 

 ]iowdered juniper berries and gentian root, of each, 1 pound. Mix 

 with 20 quarts of grits. A lick for fifty sheep. 



A verj^ complicated but apparently good tonic remedy is known as 

 Spinola's worm-cake, see page 121. Vieth recommends the following: 

 Oalc bark, calamus, gentian root, and juniper berries, of each 2 pounds. 

 Pulverize and add pulverized sulphate of iron, 1 pound; pulverized cook- 

 ing-salt, 10 pouiuls. Mix thoroughly, and give each sheep a teaspoonful 

 e\'ery two or three days. Tlie medicine is most easily administered 

 mixed with meal, chops, bran, etc. Either of the vegetable ingredi(>nts 

 of thc'above recipes can be omitted and substituted by some other well- 

 known tonics, though each is thought to have its special virtues. Tiie 

 dietary treatment is the most valuable. Grain-feeding, mashes, strong 

 meals, as flax seed meal cakes, or cotton-seed oil cakes, can be given in 

 judicious quantities. The general treatment should embrace every 

 means known to the Hock-master to sustain the health of the Hock. 



Police s(iiiitaflo)t. — The moat of sheep aflected with liver-rot is safe to 

 eat, but iu advaiu'.cd stages of the disease it is too watery, lean, and in- 

 iiutriMons to be wholesome food, and is only an infeiior article. When 

 killed during the early stages of the disease it is more salable and nutri- 

 tious. Later on, it should not be i)ut on the market or received by 

 buyers. 



