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care for it, and consequently have taken very 

 little during this period, and I now find fluke 

 reappearing in the liver of sheep slaughtered. 

 This is in the year 1900." 



Can one produce stronger testimony in sup- 

 port of keeping the animal healthy to enable it 

 to resist this disease. 



To my mind there can be no question that 

 the herbage is chlorotic, and if the land was 

 manured with, say, 100 pounds of oxide of iron, 

 the pasture would not only be improved, but 

 there would be no sheep lost through this disease, 

 to say nothing of other diseases. 



TUBERCULOSIS 



In tuberculosis again the analysis of milk 

 given on p. 48 shows clearly the grave chemical 

 deficiencies which go with a defective haemo- 

 globin, and as it is recognized that milk is a 

 product of the tissues, it is clear that an animal 

 suffering from tuberculosis is not obtaining 

 from the food eaten the requisite chemical 

 constituents. In other words, in this, as in the 

 diseases I have previously referred to, chlorotic 

 food is at the root of the matter, and the proper 



