36 MANAGEMENT OF FLOCK. 



" Treatment should never be given on full stomach, but only 

 after 12 to 18 hours fasting, and neither water nor feed should be 

 given inside of two hours after giving the medicine. 



" Treatment should be given three days consecutively, then 

 repeated one week or ten days later for the same number of days. 



" The monthly gains made by our lambs, after giving gasoline in 

 the recent experiment, together with other evidence, indicate that 

 no practical injury has been done to the digestive system or to 

 the general constitution of the animal. 



" This single experiment indicates that lambs kept from pasture 

 will not suffer from this parasite, and may be made the equal in 

 size and constitution of lambs running with mothers all the time." 



STURDY, FROM TAPE WORM IN DOGS. 



A NECESSARY PRECAUTION. 



Dogs infested with Tape Worms very frequently act as the 

 medium in the infectation of the flock with Sturdy or Gid, 

 known in some districts as Goggles, Blobworl, Punt, Turnside, 

 Turnsick, and therefore every care should be taken to guard 

 against this source of trouble. All dogs on the farm should 

 periodically be dosed with Areca nut or other suitable medicine, 

 to be followed some 10 hours after with a dose of Castor Oil. By 

 this simple practise the worms are expelled, and the danger of 

 infestation greatly minimised. Of course the dogs should be shut 

 up until the medicine has thoroughly acted ; and though, at the 

 outset, these precautions may appear unnecessary, many cases 

 could be given where valuable young sheep have been lost in 

 great numbers. 



MR. JOHN GAMGEE, lecturing at the New Veterinary College, 

 Edinburgh, in 1859, said "I have found that wherever lambs 

 can be kept without dogs, ' sturdy ' is unknown ; but in moun- 

 tain districts, and where dogs are indispensable, the malady 

 decimates the flocks." 



