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red or ash-colorcd, and sometimes even gangrenous at dif- 

 ferent points. Thirty and even forty of these larvae have 

 been found together, but there is generally a much smaller 

 number present. 



Treatment. — The line of treatment pursued may be in 

 three directions : — 



1st. By violent sneezing the bots can sometimes be expelled 

 from the nostrils. For this purpose, tobacco snuff can be 

 shaken into the animaPs nostril; or when, owing to the 

 number, this is impracticable, they may be driven into a close 

 shed, and irritating substances, such as horn, leather, feathers, 

 etc., be burned. 



2dly. In severe cases, the horns are sawed off close to the 

 head, the sinuses opened with a trocar, and some sweet oil, 

 flavored with turpentine, is poured in, 



3dly. The sheep are seized, and the nose held up, while a 

 teaspoonfid or two of a mixture of equal parts of sweet oil 

 and turpentine are poured into the nostrils. This requires 

 some care, that the animal is not choked by the fluid passing 

 into the lungs. It is, however, very efficacious. 



To prevent the flies from depositing their eggs in the nos- 

 trils, some shepherds smear the noses of the sheep with tar 

 dm'ing June and July ; others run furrows across the field, 

 so that the sheep can protect themselves from the flies by 

 burying their nose in the dirt, 



LTING WORMS— THE HOOSE IN LAMBS. 



Deflnition. — A disease caused by the presence in the 

 breathing tubes (the windpipe and bronchi), and the bowels, 

 of a worm, called the lung worm, strongulus jilaria. The 

 complaint is cjuite common in Ohio, where it is known as 

 " white skin," the " pale disease," " paper skin," " pelt rot," 

 etc., from the bloodless appearance which 2)recedes death. It 

 is often very fatal, though it should not be, as it is a curable 

 disease. 



