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suffer from worms. I have always considered -that sour grass 

 has a like effect on young lambs. As a corrector to this state 

 or condition of the lamb's stomach a ration consisting of 

 cats and oil-cake is, to my mind, an ideal one. I say without 

 fear of successful contradiction that where young lambs have 

 a liberal grain ration in connection with their pasture less 

 trouble is experienced in regard to the attack of the deadly 

 stomach worm. I am a firm believer that hog cholera is 

 caused by a morbid state of the animal's stomach, caused in 

 a majority of cases through improper feeding, filth and 

 neglect in supplying proper correctors of acidity in the stom- 

 ach, and I believe that a lamb is similarly affected and that 

 the morbidness of the stomach is the ideal state for the 

 development of the germ. I am satisfied that a well-fed lamb 

 offers but little encouragement for the attack of the stomach 

 worm. This appears reasonable to me from the fact that 

 experience has taught me that sheep, or lambs rather, being 

 properly fed for show purposes, do not suffer from their 

 attacks. 



Have we yet a remedy that is reliable as a destroyer of the 

 .stomach worm? My candid opinion is we have not. It is 

 claimed that benzine will destroy the deadly pest. Experi- 

 ment has not yet satisfactorily proved it to the writer. I 

 will give my experience along this line. 



A little over a year ago I selected four lambs very badly 

 infested with stomach worms. Two of these I drenched as 

 prescribed by the advocates of benzine. After due time had 

 tieen allowed for the medicine to take effect I killed the two 

 lambs and made an examination of the fourth stomach ex- 

 pecting to find the lambs either free from worms or the 

 stomach containing nothing in the shape of worms but dead 



