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very palatable to the taste or highly nutritious ; but when 

 it is considered that such a state of things only occurs in 

 sheep which are very rotten, there can be no valid reason 

 for rejecting meat derived from animals slaughtered 

 before that period of exhaustion arrives. It is well 

 known that sheep fatten readily during the initiatory 

 stages of the disorder ; and, guided in his conduct by 

 this knowledge, Dr. Rowe can say, "I have fattened 

 thousands of them, and converted them into money 

 within six months after their arrival." On a smaller 

 scale some of our own sheep breeders have been equally 

 successful. 



The possibility of stamping out the disease is a ques- 

 tion to which Dr. Rowe has also applied his practical mind 

 very diligently; and, accepting my views as to the 

 genesis and development of flukes, he suggests the 

 adoption of a series of measures which he believes 

 might effect this desirable end. It is unnecessary to 

 recapitulate his statements at length, since they have 

 been reproduced quite recently in the pages of the Veteri- 

 narian, (for ~F eh. 1873.) Suffice it to say that the main 

 point consists in burning the grass on which "fluky" sheep 

 have been pastured, and thereafter restocking with sound 

 animals. This step, along with others of a subordinate 

 kind, would ultimately have the desired effect ; but the 

 expenses necessary to cover the losses incurred in the 

 first instance would necessarily operate to prevent their 

 adoption on any very extended scale. All things con- 

 sidered, therefore, I think that there are simpler pre- 

 cautionary measures, the employment of which would 

 involve only a comparatively trifling outlay. Some of 

 these, at all events, might well form the basis of an 

 experimental test, undertaken with the view of ascertain- 



