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two or three weeks. This is said to be a sure cure, and the sheep will usually get well and 

 begin to fatten in about three weeks. Bruising a quantity of pumpkin seeds, and giving a 

 strong tea made from them for several days, is said to be a safe and effective cure. Having 

 never tried this remedy, we cannot recommend it from experience. Hair worms are also 

 very common and troublesome in sheep, and are frequently found in the stomach and 

 intestines of sheep and lambs that have died from persistent diarrhea, and are a species of 

 tricocephalus. &quot;When afflicted with them the animal will have diarrhea and become rapidly 

 emaciated ; the worms are also often seen about the vent. 



Salt and sulphate of iron in half-ounce doses, given each alternate day for a few days, is a 

 remedy often resorted to. Care should be taken not to give too large a dose as the sulphate 

 of iron is very astringent and might do harm if improperly administered. The above 

 remedies for tape-worm are also recommended for the hair or pin-worm. 



These parasites are the cause of much irritation and injury to the stomach and intestines. 

 They burrow their heads into the lining membrane of each and suck the juice from them, 

 upon which they subsist. The remedy, to be effective, must be such as will destroy the 

 worms without injury to these delicate membranes of the sheep. Turpentine is thought by 

 some to be injurious to the kidneys, but it is more frequently used for this difficulty than any 

 other remedy. It is highly important to give nutritious food in order to support the strength 

 of the animal, as the effect of the worms is very debilitating. The doses above recommended 

 are suitable for a full grown sheep. Lambs should of course take a proportionate quantity. 



Another common parasite very troublesome, is the Strangylus filaria, which is a thread 

 worm that infests the air passages of both the throat and lungs of the sheep, and is usually 

 present in flocks that have access to ponds and streams, and that pasture on wet, swampy 

 lands. This worm is a species related to that which is troublesome to fowls, causing gapes 

 in chickens, and is frequently fatal to lambs. Turpentine is the effectual remedy, and should 

 be given according to the above directions. &quot;Well water is best for sheep, being free from 

 the eggs of parasites. 



THE ANGORA GOAT. 



THE successful rearing of the Angora goat in this country, has thus far been limited 

 to a few individuals, the numerous failures in this enterprise being attributed to 

 incompetent management, unnatural location, climate, and food, and by permitting 

 the herds to deteriorate by not maintaining a high standard in breeding. The pure-bred 

 Angora goat is in many respects the most valuable lanigerous animal known, and we believe 

 the time is not far distant, when the value of the industry which it represents will be more 

 fully understood and appreciated in this country, and those localities suited to its successful 

 development will be appropriated to this enterprise, which will materially add to the nation s 

 wealth and prosperity. 



The Angora goat is often improperly confounded with the Cashmere species, although 

 it is very different, the two varieties being almost as distinct as a goat and a sheep, and 

 should never be classed as the same. The principal feature of the Angora is the length and 

 quality of its hair, which has a very soft and silky texture, is strong, fine, and lustrous, and 

 for various uses is unexcelled in strength, durability, and cheapness. This hair covers the 

 entire body, and a great portion of the legs, with a compact, lustrous, wavy fleece, the animal 

 in its best condition producing ten to twelve pounds of the mohair, at a single shearing, 

 although the average is generally less than ten pounds. The horns of the male are quite long, 

 nearly vertical, and somewhat spiral in form, while those of the female have a horizontal 

 tendency resembling those of a ram. The face resembles somewhat that of the sheep. 



