120 



Keeping the sheep shut up and away from food for 

 twenty-four hours before treating. 



Dissolve one ounce of copper sulphate (bluestone) to 

 two 'quarts of water and give to each individual a dose as 

 indicated in" the following table : 



For a lamb 3 months old give 2-3 of a fluid ounce 

 (20 cc.) 



For a lamb 6 months old give 1 1-2 fluid ounces (40 cc.) 



For a sheep 1 year old give 2 1-2 fluid ounces (60 cc.) 



For a sheep 2 years old give 3 1-2 fluid ounces (90 cc.) 



PRECAUTIONS Use copper sulphate of a uniform 



blue color, without any whitish crusts, or in conglomerate 



lumps. 



Do not guess at weights or measures. Have your drug- 

 gist weigh the bluestone; and have him graduate your 

 drenching bottle by marking the appropriate doses with a 

 file. 



Do not allow the* sheep to have access to water for 

 several hours after dosing. 



Should any of them receive an overdose, indicated by 

 lying apart from the rest of the flock, purging, and showing 

 symptoms of pain, place in a shady place and give a tea- 

 spoonful of laudanum in a tumbler full of milk. 



Provide your sheep with a rotation of pasture. This 

 does not mean that the sheep should be changed from one 

 pasture to another every few weeks or months, but every 

 year or so put them on a pasture on which no sheep have 

 ranged for at least one year. While no one has as yet 

 discovered the intermediate host or -hosts of any of the 

 tapeworms of the herbivora, yet they probably pass part 

 of their life in some of the low r er animals or insects. This 

 is why a rotation of pasture is so strongly emphasized in 

 trying to rid a flock of sheep from parasites. 



E. L. MOORE, 



Veterinarian. 



