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speedy cure. The writer has repeatedly cured this 

 trouble by dropping a tiny drop of the pure dip, un- 

 diluted, into the open eye of a lamb. Tears start 

 vigorously and dissolve it while the eyelid wink- 

 ing vigorously carries it to every part. The cheeks 

 should be saturated also with dip, properly diluted. 



SORE MOUTH AND TEATS. 



Quite often a contagious form of sore mouth af- 

 fects young lambs and the sores are seen also upon 

 the teats and udders of the ewes. These sores form 

 scabs along the edges of the lips arid pustules upon 

 the teats. Often they become so troublesome as 

 to cause the death of the lamb, more usually simply 

 interfering with its thrift so much as to sometimes 

 make it profitless. The writer has found this dis- 

 ease, which sheep writers usually spend so much 

 time in describing and discussing, of the easiest pos- 

 sible control. Assuming that it is of germ origin, 

 to rub off the scabs and wash the lips with strong 

 solution of coaltar dip and to treat the udders in 

 the same manner has with the author in every case 

 served to effect a radical cure. Quite often this dis- 

 ease breaks out upon the mouths of western range 

 lambs upon their arrival at an eastern farm for 

 feeding. The treatment is to rub off the scabs and 

 apply the undiluted dip to the fresh surface. In 

 recommending these coaltar dips the writer means 

 such preparations as are usually named "Zeno- 

 leum," "Naptholeum," "Milk Oil," etc. They are 

 much alike, really impure coaltar creosote, and most 



