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has proved effective in the experience of the writer and one applica- 

 tion has always been sufficient. There is another form of this sore 

 mouth, that is confined to the lambs. It is more difficult to cure; 

 but after running its course will quickly disappear. 



SORE EYES 



The contagious sore eyes that sometimes appears among the 

 flock in Winter is also easily and quickly cured by a tiny drop of 

 sheep dip dropped in the eye. It should be diluted about ten times 

 with water and not only a little allowed to penetrate the eye but 

 the face should be scrubbed with it especially wherever the tears 

 have run down the cheeks. There is no excuse for allowing these 



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and similar petty diseases to spread and become formidable, a little 

 watchful care, a little disinfecting with a carbolic dip and the disease 

 is cured and its spread stopped. Milk-oil, or some similar carbolic 

 preparation should always be at hand in a bottle, or better, an oil- 

 can on a shelf in the sheep barn. 



INTERNAL PARASITES. 



Would it were as easy to keep the inside of a sheep clean as 

 the outside. Unfortunately this is not so. Sheep suffer greatly 

 from a number of internal parasites but in America the chief and al- 

 most only important one is the tiny stomach-worm. The lambs 

 that are dropped in fall and kept on clean pastures until cold weath- 

 er are seldom troubled with these pests, the lambs dropped early in 



