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drams of Benzine should be mixed with either three ounces of 

 New Milk or luke-warm Linseed Tea. This is the proper dose 

 for each lamb, and should be administered on three successive 

 mornings. On the fourth morning it is recommended that each 

 lamb should receive a three-ounce drench of raw Linseed Oil. 

 Extreme care is required in drenching, as it is very easy to strangle 

 a lamb. Jt should be noted that if Creoline is used the drench 

 must only be one dram. 



Summary of Report Issued by the Ohio Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station: Bulletin nj, April, 1900: 



" Meteorological conditions are not wholly responsible for the 

 appearance of the stomach worms, though wet seasons and low 

 wet pastures may aid their development. 



" Good authorities claim that infection comes through grass taken 

 from pastures where sheep have fed and dunged, and that the egg 

 is there left in the manure and taken in while the host is pasturing. 

 The experiment detailed in this bulletin confirms that opinion. 



"Characteristic symptoms are hardly to be separated from 

 conditions due to similar trouble caused by other parasites of the 

 lungs and alimentary canal. 



" Benzine, when given with care, is one of the best remedies 

 known, and from the evidence thus far gathered, reaches and 

 destroys the parasite. 



" Gasoline is quite as good for the purpose as benzine, and sweet 

 milk may be substituted for flaxseed tea. 



" One tablespoonful of gasoline and four ounces of sweet milk 

 well shaken together, is a good dose for sheep weighing anywhere 

 from 60 to IOO pounds. The quantity of milk may be reduced 

 or increased slightly without detrimental results. 



" Each sheep or lamb should be set on his rump and so held that 

 he will not struggle, while the dose is given as a drench, and his 

 head should not be thrown farther back than the natural position 

 while standing. 



