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using the same water supply, has resulted in 

 not one instance of "water belly." The Writer 

 has been informed of other instances where oat 

 hay had seemingly caused this disorder with- 

 out the accompaniment of an overdose of salt. 



The use of clover or alfalfa hay with com 

 silage in not too great quantity and com, With 

 oats or bran if desired, will not cause this dis- 

 order in one instance in thousands. 



This is not a treatise on starvation, but it 

 may be as wfell to drop here a hint that sheep 

 that have been starved near to death for some 

 time are not usually profitable animals to buy, 

 since they take a long time to recover and many 

 will die in the process unless great care is used 

 in building them up again. The writer has 

 known instances of famishing sheep being 

 bought for a few cents each on some dried-up 

 and overstocked range, shipped to other more 

 fruitful ranges distant some ways and there 

 turned out on good grass. They died rapidly, 

 however, and continued to die for some time 

 after being placed on the good feed. 



IMPOETANGE OF POST-MOKTEM DISSECTION. 



The novice in sheep breeding and feeding, or 

 the old hand for that matter, should take fre- 

 quent opportunity of post-mortem examination 

 of a sheep recently dead, seeking to see whether 

 the cause of death is from disordered digestion 

 or parasitic infection. It is useless to dissect 

 a sheep that has been dead for some days and 

 even after the lapse of a few hours there will 

 come very misleading appearances, as of blood 



