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white skin, emaciation, weakness and sometimes 

 death. 



Treatment should be given to each one of the 

 affected flock. Prepare them for treatment by 

 fasting for 12 hours. After being treated they 

 should be confined for 24 hours so that the seg- 

 ments of the tapeworm expelled will not be scat- 

 tered over the fields to further infect them. The 

 sheep should after treatment has been deemed sat- 

 isfactory be put on clean fresh ground. 



Dr. Eushworth always prescribes kamala for 

 tapeworms. The dose is three drams mixed well 

 in three ounces of linseed gruel, this dose for adult 

 sheep. Lambs will require from one to two 

 drams, according to their size. 



Any medicine administered to a sheep should be 

 given with the sheep standing in a natural position, 

 with its head raised not too high, and given slowly, 

 so that it may pass at once into the fourth stomach. 

 If it passes into the paunch it will probably not do 

 much good. 



If the kamala does not prove effective Eushworth 

 advises giving ethereal extract of male shield fern, 

 one dram; castor oil, four ounces; mix and give as 

 a dose to mature sheep. Lambs can have from one 

 to three-fourths of this dose. 



A tonic is then prescribed consisting of salt, 2 

 pounds ; epsom salts, 1 pound ; sulphate of iron, one- 

 half pound; powdered gentian, one-half pound; 

 nitrate of potash, 4 ounces. This is to be mixed to- 

 gether and fed to 100 sheep, in oats, bran or other 



