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tion ceases, the udder mortifies and if the ewe lives 

 long enough it sloughs off, leaving a sore slow to 

 heal. In mild cases the symptoms are very much 

 less severe and the ewe soon recovers, losing per- 

 haps the use of one quarter of her udder. 



One of the causes that led the author to attempt 

 this work was his despair of finding light on this 

 and some other subjects in any existent book that 

 had come to his notice. The causes usually assigned 

 to the production of garget are lying on the cold 

 ground, bunting by lambs or from having too much 

 milk for the lamb to take clean. Doubtless all these 

 things are evils, but the writer is convinced that 

 the cause of garget is something quite apart from 

 any of them. 



Probably there are two forms of garget, caused 

 by different things and running different courses. 

 Too much milk in the udder caused by the death or 

 removal of a lamb, may cause caked bag and injure 

 a portion of the udder, but that is a far different 

 disease from the malignant garget that has often 

 nearly broken the heart of the writer and of his 

 younger brother, upon whose shoulders the mantle 

 of shepherding on Woodland Farm has fallen. In- 

 deed, excepting that the seat of the disease is in 

 the udder, there are no symptoms in common with 

 the" two diseases. The writer has never seen a case 

 of caked bag result fatally and but one or two of 

 real garget recover those after a long period of 

 healing when the entire udder had sloughed off. 



The writer believes that all the cases of malig- 



