Bucuanan.—On Pseudo-scab and Lung-worm in Sheep. 271 
Preventative measures with this disease should always be tried in pre- 
ference to what may be termed a cure, for it is only when the worms are 
leaving instinctively that any cure is ever tried, and it were better to 
assist their escape by cleaning out the nostrils of the sheep than killing 
them in the air passages of the lungs with the fumes of burning sulphur. 
Hither prevention of access of the worm to the sheep in spring, by their 
Temoval to dry ground—or keeping rock-salt in places where the sheep can 
have access to it, more especially when the young nematode has newly 
reached the lungs and is of a microscopic size—should be adopted. 
When the young worm finds a nidus on the back, and the wool shows the 
first symptoms of raggedness, an application of a mixture of soft soap in 
water with a little turpentine or kerosene, if distributed in the opened wool 
with a groove-corked bottle, would speedily check the evil. 
Extracts from Reports of Sheep Inspectors and Notes thereon. 
Mr. Foster in a report to the Stock Department describes very correctly 
the disease in sheep caused by worms in the lungs ; but the proper time for 
administering remedies is not stated, and any treatment which would kill 
the worms after they have reached an advanced stage of development is 
more likely to kill the sheep; every means should be used to get the worms 
out of the nostrils and prevent suffocation of the sheep. It is very pro- 
bable that sulphur fumes might prove beneficial if applied when the worms 
are of a microscopic size on their earliest arrival from the wet ground. & 
Mr. Boyes seems to be on the right track with the sulphur fumes, he 
says he is sure it will cure the bronchial disease “ in its earlier stage,” and 
he means to use it as a preventative ; perhaps he expects too much in that, 
as sulphur fumes are not likely to do much damage to worms before their 
arrival. Why not put soluble sulphur in the blood through the stomach ? 
Mr. Reginald Foster points out the main feature of the whole subject : 
‘Most stock-owners wean their lambs on their best feed, which in 
Summer is usually on the moist low-lying land where these parasites or 
rather their ova exist. Lambing paddocks should be virgin pasture.” 
Sheep Inspector Simpson, Marton District, reports as follows: “I for- 
ward by mail to-day a package containing portion of a sheep’s lung showing 
® number of worms in its tubes, perhaps you may be able to obtain reliable 
information if this is the cause of the heavy losses, bec dia Sa ssn 
Several years past. : 
_” The first symptom is a severe cough, afterwards followe i is oomecines: 
tes in death. 1 nee: sony lds ioebt Ants, the 
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