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It will run against obstacles, sometimes pressing against them with the head for some time. 

 Some attribute this disease to the exciting effects of feeding too much corn. 



Feeding with bran and roots for a time, with good hay, may remedy the trouble ; also 

 1 ounces of sulphate of magnesia, repeated after two days. The dose should be dissolved 

 in a little water and turned down the animal. If taken before the disease is far advanced, 

 this will usually prove an effectual remedy, but the recovery from this disease will always 

 be gradual. Constipation should be avoided. 



Catarrh. This is another term for cold in the head, and is caused by taking cold in 

 various ways, such as exposure to storms (cold rains being the worst), getting chilled after 

 running, being in a strong draft of cold air, lying on the wet ground, etc. It consists of an 

 inflammation of *the mucus membrane of the nostrils and windpipe, and in the acute form 

 often extends to the lungs, which constitutes lung fever, when they will often die notwith 

 standing the care that may be bestowed upon them. Sometimes they will gradually loose 

 their vitality, waste away, and drop off before spring. With this, as with most other diseases, 

 the prevention is more easy than the cure. Take good care of your flock and they will not 

 contract the disease. 



A good remedy for catarrh is to smear the noses of the sheep with tar, using only that 

 which is good and fresh, and also put some along the bottom of the trough in which their 

 grain is fed to them. By scattering their grain over the tar they will lick up some of it in 

 eating the grain. Particular attention should always be given to keeping the flock under 

 cover during rainy weathei-, and in keeping their stables and sheds well ventilated at all 

 times. 



Another very good remedy is to take equal parts of pulverized rosin, flowers of sulphur, 

 and salt, and cover the bottoms of their feeding troughs with it. The sticky nature of the 

 rosin, combined with the moisture of the salt, causes the sulphur to adhere to the noses of 

 the sheep, and sulphur is one of the best remedies for catarrh. In this way they will get a 

 direct application to the nose every time they eat. 



Sulphur, mixed with salt, in the proportion of five pounds of salt to one of sulphur, is 

 considered a good remedy by many flock-masters. It should be placed in their feeding- 

 troughs, or places where they can have easy access to it. Some sheep-owners give their well 

 flocks this mixture evefy week or two. 



Sulphur has many valuable properties that recommend its use to keepers of sheep. It is 

 a mild laxative, and valuable for use in hemorrhoids or piles. It induces perspiration, and 

 passes readily through the pores of the skin, and is also an exterminator of parasites. 



In severe cases a dose of podophylin as a physic, followed by a mild dose of cinchonia 

 every three hours afterwards until five of the latter doses are taken, will usually prove bene 

 ficial. This can be repeated the following day, if necessary. The dose for a sheep is twice 

 the quantity required for a man. The podophylin acts directly upon the liver, and equalizes 

 the circulation. 



Choking. When obstructions lodge in the throat which the animal is unable to dis 

 lodge, a little olive oil or melted lard turned down will usually enable a person to move the 

 obstruction up or down with the hand from the outside. (See directions for this difficulty in 

 the Cattle department.) 



Colic. This is usually very violent and distressing; the animal having at intervals par 

 oxysms of severe pain. It will stretch itself, groan, twist its head, and frequently get up and 

 lie down again. It is generally caused by drinking a large quantity of cold water when 

 heated; improper food, etc.; and is sometimes the result of constipation produced by the 

 animal s being confined exclusively to dry food for some time. Unless relief is soon 

 obtained it often results in the loss of the animal. 



