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thus strange. Constipation is the cause of these symptoms.. 

 Upon giving the little unfortunate an injection of either soapy 

 water, or raw linseed oil, it will be found that little time will 

 elapse before he will commence to suck with its oldtime 

 vigor. A small dose of linseed oil administered to the ewe 

 will sometimes bring about a change in the ewe's system that 

 will prove beneficial to the lamb. Change of the ewe's food 

 not rapid is usually the best course to pursue to correct 

 irregularities in the system of the offspring. Oil-meal or 

 oil-cake is a very valuable addition to the ewe's ration where 

 troubles from constipation are at all prevalent. 



Shepherds who desire to have as little trouble as possible 

 along this line should not fail to plant a few acres of roots 

 for their sheep; it will repay them ten-fold in curtailing the 

 loss of lambs from constipation, to say nothing of the in- 

 crease in quality and size of the lambs. 



White Scour*. 



Almost all people having had experience in handling either 

 calves or lambs are pretty well familiar with the symptoms 

 accompanying this trouble. It is a common disease, but 

 rarely appears in an epidemic form unless where grave 

 errors and mistakes have been made in feeding. The real 

 cause of this trouble is the souring or curdling of the milk 

 in the lamb's stomach. While nature intends the mission of 

 the fourth stomach to be that of curdling the milk to a certain 

 degree, to facilitate digestion, this organ can be easily over- 

 worked, overstrained and damaged by receiving milk iri 

 excessive quantities, or of too rich a nature or quality. 



The first important move to be made in the treatment of a 



