THE MORE COMMON AILMENTS OF SHEEP 395 



the benzine treatment, popular at one time, being cheaper 

 than either and at least as effective. 



When given the treatment, the animals should be 

 yarded and fed in the early evening. The treatment 

 should be administered the next morning at a late hour 

 on an empty stomach. They should be thus managed 

 from day to day during the continuance of the treatments. 

 It is recommended that three treatments should follow on 

 as many consecutive days, especially in the case of the 

 lambs. In cases of very serious infection the lambs 

 should be again dosed once a week, and all the lambs in 

 the flock should be treated. The ewes should also be 

 treated, but not necessarily to the same extent as the 

 lambs. 



Sheep are drenched from a horn or a stout glass 

 drenching bottle. Two persons are called for to accom- 

 plish the work. One throws the sheep on its buttock and 

 holds it between his legs with the back toward him. The 

 lower jaw is held in his left hand, which raises the head 

 to the level of the line of the back, but not higher. The 

 right hand may grasp the upper jaw or pull outward the 

 pouch of the side of the jaws. The other places the mouth 

 of the drenching bottle well up against the roof of the 

 mouth and pours slowly, to avoid strangling. A moderate 

 amount of the mixture is better than a large amount, as 

 it is more completely retained in the fourth stomach. 

 During recent years, administering the drench to sheep 

 while they are in a standing posture has grown rapidly 

 in favor, and the practice is sustained by some good 

 reasons. 



Some shepherds feed certain mixtures as antidotes 

 during more or less of the year. Tobacco dust has been 

 fed along with sulphur, copperas and salt. Others feed 

 proprietary worm powders. The evidences in favor of 

 the value of such feeding are far from being completely 

 convincing. 



The tapeworm (Taenia expansa), though not as harm- 



