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tapeworms in dogs: "The dog to be treated should 

 not be fed for at least twelve hours before receiv- 

 ing the medicine but it can be allowed all the water 

 it chooses. The evening before administering the 

 worm medicine a dose of castor oil is advisable; 

 for large dogs the dose is three tablespoonfuls. 

 Then in the morning take of kamala 3 drams, 

 gruel 1 ounce ; mix and give as a dose. With a me- 

 dium-sized dog two drams of kamala will be suffi- 

 cient. This is a very effective taeniacide." 



As to the cure of disorders of sheep caused by 

 overfeeding in the barn or feedlot. Cases will oc- 

 cur in the best regulated barns, not very many when 

 things are carefully done, but always some. The 

 writer and his brothers and neighbors have lost 

 hundreds of sheep and lambs from this cause and 

 tried many reputed remedies. He does not now be- 

 lieve he has ever benefited a sick sheep by medicine 

 or treatment when the cause was due to serious de- 

 rangement of digestion. Death is almost sure to 

 follow no matter what you may do. If there is 

 virtue in anything it is in simply taking the sheep 

 away from all grain whatever and letting it alone. 

 If there is not too much internal disorder this will 

 suffice, but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred 

 when the sheep is sick enough to be very noticeable 

 it will die no matter what you may do. So pre- 

 vention, not remedy, is the rule for disorders of the 

 digestion. These cases come from gorging with 

 grain and there is probably some toxic poison 

 formed, for in many instances where the writer has 



