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Ticks. 



The sheep tick is an insect which does not multiply very rapidly, but 

 which is very troublesome in a flock. The so-called sheep tick is really not 

 a tick but a fly. It is easily killed by any mange cure. 



Treatment. The parasites may be easily exterminated by dipping the 

 sheep in an infusion of tobacco. A preparation for that purpose is now manu- 

 factured, and can be obtained at any drug store with full directions for use. 

 The best time to dip sheep is immediately after shearing, as the solution 

 then readily comes in contact with the ticks. Sifting wood ashes in the wool 

 often drives ticks away. Glover's mange cure is very good. 



Stomach of Sheep. 

 Action of Stomach. 



Stomach of ruminants. 



Stomach of a full'grown sheep, % natural size (after Thanhoffer, from R. Meade 

 Smith's Physiology of Domestic Animals) : a, rumen, or first stomach; b, recticulum, or second 

 stomach ; c, omasum, or third stomach ; d, abomasum, or fourth stomach ; e, esophagus, 

 or gullet, opening into the first and second stomachs ; /, opening of fourth stomach into 

 small intestine; g, opening of second stomach into third; h, opening of third stomach into 

 fourth. 



The lines indicate the course of the food in the stomachs. The incompletely 

 masticated food passes down the esophagus, or gullet, into the first and second stomachs, 

 in which a churning motion is kept up, carrying the food from side to side and from 

 stomach to stomach. From the first stomach regurgitation takes place; that is, the food 

 is returned through the gullet to the mouth to be more thoroughly chewed, and this 

 constitutes what is known as "chewing the cud." From the second stomach the food 

 passes into the third, and from the third into the fourth, or true stomach, and from there 

 into the intestines. 



