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not be fed for at least twelve hours before re- 

 ceiving the medicine but it can be allowed all 

 the water it chooses. The evening before ad- 

 ministering the worm medicine a dose of castor 

 oil is advisable; for large dogs the dose is three 

 tablespoonfuls. Then in the morning take of 

 kamala 3 drachms, gruel 1 ounce, mix and give 

 as a dose. With a medium sized dog two 

 drachms of kamala will be sufficient. This is 

 a very effective taeniacide." 



Now as to the cure of disorders caused by 

 overfeeding in the barn or feed lot. Cases will 

 occur in the best regulated bams, not very 

 many when things are carefully done, but 

 always some. The writer and his brothers and 

 neighbors have lost hundreds of sheep and 

 lambs in this manner and tried many reputed 

 remedies. He does not now believe he has ever 

 benefited a sick sheep by medicine or treat- 

 ment when the cause was due to serious de- 

 rangement of digestion. Death is almost sure to 

 follow no matter what you may do. If there 

 is virtue in any thing it is in simply taking 

 the sheep away from all grain whatever and 

 letting it alone. If there is not too much in- 

 ternal disorder that will cure, but in ninety- 

 nine cases out of a hundred when the sheep is 

 sick enough to be very noticeable it will die 

 no matter what you may do. So prevention, 

 not remedy, is the rule for disorders of the 

 digestion. These cases come from gorging with 

 grain and there is probably some toxic poison 

 formed, for in many instances where the writer 

 has made post-mortem examinations of afflicted 



