Bucuanan.—On Pseudo-scab and Lung-worm in Sheep. 278 
but I fear the sheep were too far gone for any remedy to have effect. In 
each of these latter cases I found on opening the sheep that the worms 
had penetrated the lungs, and when this has occurred I am afraid there is 
no cure. I have made the infected sheep inhale sulphur four times, at 
intervals of three days, and the flock seem now quite recovered, in good 
heart and feeding well. The sulphur inhalation is the cheapest and speed- 
iest cure, and I am much indebted to you for your suggestion of it; in future 
I intend putting the sheep through a course of this treatment at the end of 
each autumn as a preventative, as I have noticed that this is the season 
when the disease always shows itself first.” 
Mr. Reginald Foster, writing to the Stock Department, says :—‘* We 
must look rather to preventive means. In this, as in the case of most 
diseases, I think there must be some predisposition to contract disease, and 
this is most likely to occur soon after weaning, when those lambs which had 
not weaned themselves, being suddenly deprived of their natural food, are 
for a time debilitated, and would therefore be the more susceptible to disease. 
‘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. None but adult stock which are able to resist the 
attacks of the bronchial worms should be put on rich swampy pastures. 
Lambing paddocks should if possible be virgin pasture, or should have been 
Saved some time for the purpose, and the lambs should always have access 
to rock-salt, which is the best known preventative for worms of all kinds. 
The simplest remedies recommended are a dessert-spoonful of turpentine 
to two of linseed oil, given every other day, about three or four doses; or 
the sheep should be placed in a close shed and made to inhale the fumes of 
sulphur. This may be done by sprinkling sulphur on a pan of live coals. 
instances 
‘* These remedies have been tried in two or three here, but I 
have not yet heard with what result. I think they would only be effectual 
in the very earliest stages.” 
Extract from Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Ohio. 
“We have no knowledge of the cause of the lung-worm—a name given 
for the want of a better perhaps. It affects young sheep in a greater degree 
and to a greater extent than matured animals. The worm is a small white 
one, and is found in considerable numbers in the lungs, or in tubes con- 
necting the windpipe with the lungs. The symptoms are weakness, failure 
to eat, loss of flesh, and a cough. This disease is but little understood by 
the wool-grower. 
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