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and violent and may roll, paw, kick, wander around 

 in a circle, usually going only one way, either to the 

 left or right, or it may walk or run in a straight line 

 as near as possible for hours at a time — paying no 

 attention to injuries received in its travels. In 

 either case the animal may be drenched once daily . 

 with a quart of raw linseed oil or a pound of Glau- / 

 ber salts, dissolved in water, which sometimes gives/ 

 relief. -^ 



Staggers in Sheep is mostly caused by the young 

 stage of a tapeworm which infests sheep dogs. The 

 dog eats the infected brain of the sheep and the 

 sheep eats the Qgg of the tapeworm after it has 

 passed through the dog. After the egg hatches in 

 the stomach of the sheep the young worm passes 

 through the bowels and other organs or tissues or 

 circulates through the blood and reaches the brain, 

 where it develops and causes an inflammation, re- 

 sulting in disease. It is most common in young 

 animals, rarely occurring in sheep after their second 

 year. 



Prevention is about the only practical way of 

 handling this trouble. The grounds should be 

 thoroughly drained, allowing the animals only pure, 

 fresh water to drink. It may be necessary to change 

 pastures for a year or two. The brains of all sheep 

 killed and the heads of all dying with the disease 

 should be burned. 



STOMACH AND INTESTINAL WORMS IN 

 SHEEP. — If a box of salt is kept covered in some 

 place frequented by the sheep, to which they are 

 allowed to help themselves, and if said salt is satu- 

 rated with spirits of turpentine in proportions of a 

 gill to every four quarts of salt, it will wonderfully 

 help to keep the worms from multiplying. It is 

 well, also, to have another box of larger size, where 



