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line and earthy salts should be added to the ration. Wheat bran r 

 middlings, peas, beans, cotton seed meal, linseed meal, rapecake, 

 may be named among available resorts, or in their absence, daily 

 doses of phosphate of lime, and sodium chloride or bicarbonate, 

 or potash salts may be allowed, or even bone dust. 



If imperfect digestion is a manifest factor, sodium chloride, or 

 potassium chloride, calcium phosphate, iron and bitters will serve 

 a good end. In hyperacidity, limewater, chalk, or magnesia may 

 be given. If the digestion is torpid, hydrochloric acid with bit- 

 ters may be resorted to. 



Feser and especially Lemcke strongly recommend apomorphia. 

 It is used hypodermically in doses of 2 grains for horse or cow 

 repeated daily for three days. 



Secondary Symptoms in Wool-eating Lambs. Lambs 

 from two to six weeks old, especially such as suck ewes with 

 woolly udders (merino, Cotswold) first swallow the wool inad- 

 vertently, and then acquire a liking for the saline matters in the 

 abundant yolk (merino), till finally the accumulating wool balls . 

 produce digestive and nervous disorder and a craving for the in- 

 dulgence. Thus the breed must be considered in estimating the 

 symptoms. For the same reason the wool about the hips or else- 

 where soiled with salts of the urine or liquid faeces prove attract- 

 ive to the victim. The proximity of other wool eaters is another 

 cause which starts others to follow the bad example. The gen- 

 eral conditions of debility, exhausted soil, and the absence of 

 alkaline and earthy salts must be borne in mind. So, too with 

 prolonged confinement indoors in winter, the absence of invigor- 

 ating exercise and the restriction of the animals (dams) to food 

 which is deficient in saline matters. 



Beyond the mere eating of the wool and the destruction of 

 fleeces, the lambs do not usually suffer seriously. But if the 

 consumption of wool is excessive the accumulating balls of the 

 size of marbles in the stomach, and the blocking of the pylorus, 

 and small intestine, may give rise to intermittent constipations- 

 and diarrhoeas, deranged digestion, muco-enteritis, mucous 

 covered stools, loss of condition, emaciation and retarded devel- 

 opment. 



Treatment consists first in the securing of a more healthy 

 regimen. This is but one of the evils of the close winter con- 



