280 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



worm or hydatid. The neighbor obeyed, but 

 no brain disease was found. Another neighbor 

 sent word to the afflicted one to cease feeding 

 millet hay full of seed, which he did and lost 

 no more sheep, having lost some 30 before. 

 Thus there was a clear case of deranged diges- 

 tion deceiving one by the symptoms resembling 

 those of brain parasitism. 



The writer has seen other instances of de- 

 ranged digestion that in the last stages gave 

 symptoms very like the ones described. 



Now a word about true "turn sickness." It 

 is sometimes possible to cure the disease by 

 locating the place in the brain where the blad- 

 der is formed and cutting through the skull and 

 destroying the parasite by puncturing the sac 

 that holds it. Recovery sometimes follows this 

 operation, it is said. And in Scotland it is re- 

 ported that some shepherds have such skill that 

 they can push a sharp wire up the nostril till 

 it locates and punctures the bladder in the 

 brain. This is an interesting and astounding 

 fact, if true. In practice, ini America, where 

 sheep are cheap and veterinarians of moderate 

 skill in sheep diseases are costly to employ for 

 such cases, it is best to kill the sheep for mut- 

 ton (which is not hurt by the brain hydatid in 

 the earlier stages), feed the head to the fire, 

 and not to dogs and call for a new deal. It is 

 a safe rule never to allow a dog or wolf to 

 devour a sheep's head at any time. And. dogs 

 about the place may well be treated for tape 

 worms. Doctor Rushworth prescribes for tape 

 worm in dogs: "The dog to be treated should 



