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a contagious disease. He will thereby get a pretty correct 

 idea of the cause of the animal's death and will gain knowl- 

 edge that may in the future be the means of saving the lives 

 of animals of great value. 



Although not absolutely necessary that the young shep- 

 herd should be versed in the science and art of dissecting, 

 he should have sufficient knowledge, however, in this re- 

 spect, to allow of his opening a sheep or lamb in such a 

 way and manner that each internal organ of its anatomy will 

 be clearly laid open to view and inspection. 



Without a slight knowledge of the anatomy of the animal 

 he is working in the dark, even in such trivial matters as 

 knowing where to examine for the now common stomach 

 ^worrn. It is surprising how many people, when examin- 

 ing the stomach of a sheep for worms, overlook or fail to 

 find its home or habitat, simply because they take the fourth 

 stomach to be an intestine instead of a stomach. In the 

 half-tone used in illustrating this article is a mark showing 

 just where the fourth stomach is situated, so that should any 

 of my readers have occasion at any time to make an exam- 

 ination for the dreaded pest they may strike the correct 

 place right .off without trouble. The lamb which is the sub- 

 ject of the illustration above mentioned was opened in the 

 way and manner that I recommend and describe below. 



In opening a sheep for the purpose of making a post-mor- 

 tem examination of it, a somewhat different method is used 

 from that usually employed by the slaughterman in opening 

 animals when dressing them for the market. 



Before commencing a post-mortem the operator should 

 provide himself with a liquid disinfectant wherein he may 

 dip his hands occasionally as a safeguard against blood- 



