aoo BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



with sweet milk. The gasoline and milk should be mixed in 

 the drenching bottle for only one animal at a time, and should 

 be given at once, as otherwise, on account of its volatile nature, 

 a considerable portion of the gasoline might escape. After 

 ti'eatment the sheep and lambs should be placed on ground which 

 is not infected with the eggs or embryos of these worms, — that 

 is, on ground where sheep have not run for one or two years. 

 If placed on infected pastures, they will pick up young worms 

 with the grass, and soon be in as bad a condition as they were 

 before the treatment. By properly carrying out these directions 

 it should be possible to raise lambs anywhere without serious 

 losses from stomach or intestinal worms. 



It should be borne in mind that a chanoe from infected to 

 non-infected pastures is important after the animals have re- 

 ceived the treatment, as the animals become reinfected by 

 ino-estinsf the eg-ffs which are contained in the surface drain- 

 age or deposited upon the grass. 



Symptomatic Anthrax. 



Symptomatic anthrax, commonlv known as "blackleg," 

 or "quarter evil," has occurred in seA^eral localities during 

 the summer and autumn of 1905. 



Outbreaks or suspected outbreaks of this disease have 

 occurred in Ashby, Ilubbardston, Brookfield, Princeton, 

 Florida, Harvard and Huntington. Where owners have 

 desired it, an agent of the Cattle Bureau has been sent to 

 furnish i)rotective inoculation with the " blacklegoids " pre- 

 pared by Parke, Davis 6c Co. of Detroit. In all instances 

 where this i)reparation has been used the results seem to 

 have been entirely satisfactory. In pastures Avhere young 

 animals have died of symptomatic anthrax no more deaths 

 have been reported or further symptoms of sickness been 

 shown among the young cattle thus protected. This treat- 

 ment has been applied to "> animals in Ilubbardston, where 3 

 deaths occurred ; to 4 in Brookfield, after 8 had died ; to 20 

 belonging to several owners in a jjusture in Ashby, where 8 

 had died ; to 11 belonging to 2 owners in Florida, where 2 

 deaths had tak(!n place ; and to 7 in Princeton belonging to 

 3 owners, whei-e 2 young animals had died. Some of the 



