102 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



trouble by dropping a tiny drop of the pure 

 dip, undiluted, into the open eye of the lamb. 

 Tears start vigorously and dissol\^e it while 

 the eyelid winMng vigorously carries it to 

 every part. The cheeks should be saturated 

 also with dip, properly diluted. 



SOEE MOUTHS AND TEATS. 



Quite often a contagious form of sore mouth 

 affects young lambs and the sores are seen also 

 upon the teats and udders of the ewes. These 

 sores form scabs along the edges of the lips 

 and pustules upon the teats. Often they be- 

 come so troublesome as to cause the death of 

 the lamb, more usually simply interfering with 

 its thrift so much as to sometimes make it 

 profitless. The writer has found this disease, 

 which sheep writers sometimes spend so much 

 time in describing and discussing, of the easi- 

 est possible control. Assuming that it is of 

 germ origin, to rub off the scabs and wash the 

 lips with strong solutions of coal tar dips and 

 to treat the udders in the same manner has 

 with the autlior in every case served to effect 

 a radical cure. Quite often this disease breaks 

 out upon the mouths of Western range lambs 

 upon their arrival at an Eastern farm for 

 feeding. Tbe treatment is to rub off the scabs 

 and apply the undiluted dip to the fresh sur- 

 face. In recommending these coal tar prod- 

 ucts the writer wishes to be understood as 

 meaning such preparations as are usually sold 

 as "Zenoleum," " Nap th oleum, " "Milk Oil," 

 etc. They are much alike, really impure coal 



