322 MODERN SHEEP! BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



white scours. An unhealthy condition of the ewe's milk is also 

 responsible for the same disorder. Before relief comes to the af- 

 flicted one the contents of its stomach and intestines must be re- 

 moved., and before this can be accomplished the curd in the stom- 

 ach must be dissolved. The following treatment will be found 

 valuable for white scours in lambs: Ordinary cooking soda, one- 

 fourth ounce; sulphate of magnesia, one ounce; ginger, as much 

 as can be taken up on a dime. This should be mixed with a little 

 flax seed gruel for administration. This dose should be divided into 

 halves for very young lambs. Four hours after the administration 

 of the above remedy the patient should receive two ounces of lin- 

 seed oil. Of course the age of the lamb must be taken into con- 

 sideration and the dose regulated accordingly, and this must be 

 left to a certain extent to the judgment of the shepherd. The dam 

 of the lamb suffering from white scours, or any other trouble for 

 that matter, should receive rations that will to an extent offset, 

 through her milk, such derangements of the system. She should 

 be provided with succulent rations of some sort, and if nothing 

 more handy is available potatoes are splendid for the purpose. 



LICE. 



It is surprising to learn what a number of sheep raisers there 

 are who do not know what ails their sheep when they are pestered 

 with lice. When they notice their sheep scratching and rubbing 

 themselves they usually charge it to ticks, when there may not be 

 a tick found on them. Great loss of feed is sometimes occasioned 

 from the impoverishment of the flock by the common red louse, 

 which infests the sheep's body. Lice are equally as destructive 

 to the flock as the tick. As soon as any member of the flock is 

 seen rubbing itself, and otherwise showing signs of distress, the 

 whole flock should be dipped. 



STRETCHES. 



This is a disease that attacks sheep that are confined on dry 

 rations, or, in other words, which attacks those that are not 

 supplied with a sufficiency of succulent rations. It is a species of 

 indigestion. The symptoms of this trouble are so similar to those 

 of a case of yeaning that sometimes even experienced shepherds 

 mistake it for a case of premature yeaning. For immediate relief 

 melted lard in doses of a quarter of a pound, is a well-known and 

 effectual remedy. As a preventive of this trouble in winter, 

 when the disease usually prevails, roots are to be recommended. 

 ^N~ot only are they valuable as a preventive of stretches and the 

 ills attending that complaint, but they are also very valuable as a 

 creator of a healthy milk flow in the ewe and aid considerably 

 in making strong healthy stud sheep where they are fed gener- 



