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chest, or belly, and no appetite ; the sufferer may be found 

 apart from its fellows in a corner or under a tree, covered with 

 flies, and sinking rapidly into extreme debility and death. In- 

 testinal worms (in cattle, Strongylus Radiatiis, Sclerostomum 

 Hypostomum, Ascaris Ltunbricoides, Tanie Expansa, etc., in foals, 

 Sclerostomum Equinum, S. Tetraca/ithum, Ascaris Megalocephala, 

 Oxyuris Curvula, etc.), usually co-exist to a most injurious 

 extent, causing diarrhoea and other irregularities of the bowels. 



In the worst cases death may result ten or fifteen days after 

 the onset, though more commonly it is delayed two or three 

 months, and recovery may take place. 



Prevention. — In localities and countries to which the disease 

 is new the parasites should be killed out by the continuous 

 medical treatment of the diseased animals, or, if necessary, 

 their destruction, and the separation of all horses, asses, mules, 

 and cattle, from the infested pasture or its vicinity, and from 

 any stream of water running through or close to it ; as well as 

 from all fodder, roots, grain, etc., grown on such land, for 

 several years after. In infested localities calves and foals should 

 never be pastured on land recently occupied by older stock of 

 the same kind, or allowed access to water used by such stock. 

 Sheep, goats, or pigs may be safely fed on such land. Avoid 

 overstocking. Drain the land to clear off pools or wet spots. 

 Keep the young stock from infested or suspected pastures while 

 wet with dew and rain, and from clover and allied plants which 

 by their moisture are liable to harbour the worm. Suspected 

 beasts should be kept apart from the healthy, and from healthy 

 pastures until subjected to thorough and continuous treatment. 

 The carcasses of the dead should be very deeply buried, or 

 better, the lungs and windpipe removed and burned to ashes. 

 All exposed animals should be well fed on a diet including dry 

 grain, and should be allowed salt to lick at will, this being 

 destructive to the young worms. 



Treatment.— ^^^di liberally on linseed cake, rape cake, cotton 



