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he has predicted at once that she would come down 

 with garget, and has seen his sombre prediction ver- 

 ified; has had the sad task of trying to find mothers 

 for the two worse than orphans and nursed the 

 mother for weeks till at last, ghost of her former 

 self, she went with the flock again, her udder com- 

 pletely gone and only a partly healed surface to 

 show where it had sloughed off. 



The books prescribe for malignant garget hot 

 water, camphor, applied externally, and epsom salts 

 and iron and quinine taken internally. The writer 

 after faithful efforts with hot water and all the rest 

 of the remedies does not feel that he has ever in 

 one instance even mitigated the horrors of this form 

 of garget, so will not burden the reader with his 

 recipes. Let the shepherd experiencing his first 

 instance of trouble resolve that hereafter his ewes 

 shall have the most gradual increase in feed after 

 lambing; that they will be given little corn and 

 more bran, oats and early-cut clover or alfalfa hay, 

 with roots or silage to make milk and that by this 

 means he can prevent future inflictions of this na- 

 ture. 



For the simpler forms of caked bag, however, hot 

 water applications are doubtless good, with rub- 

 bings of camphor and belladonna, and some have 

 recommended counter irritants like kerosene oil. 

 This form will never occur either if the shepherd 

 will keep the ewe milked out after lambing, arid 

 perhaps sometimes just before lambing if she is a 

 wonderful milker, and will feed right, taking care 



