286 SHEEP PARMIiSTG IN AMERTCA. 



attempt this work was his despair of finding 

 light on this and some other subjects in any 

 existent book that had come to his notice. The 

 causes usually assigned to the production of 

 garget are lying on the cold ground, bimting 

 by lambs or from having too much milk for the 

 lamb to take clean. Doubtless all these things 

 are evils, but the writer is convinced that the 

 cause of garget is something quite apart from 

 any one of them. 



Doubtless there are two forms of garget, 

 caused by different things and running differ- 

 ent courses. Too much milk in the udder, 

 caused by the death or removal of a lamb, may 

 cause caied bag and injure a portion of the 

 udder, but that is a far different disease from 

 the malignant garget that has often nearly 

 broken the heart of the writer and of his 

 younger brother, upon whose shoulders the 

 mantle of shepherding on Woodland Farm has 

 fallen. Indeed, excepting that the seat of the 

 disease is in the udder, there are nO' symptoms 

 in common with the two- diseases. The writer 

 has never seen a case of caked bag result fatally 

 • and but one or two of real garget recover, those 

 after a long period of healing when the entire 

 udder had sloughed off. 



The writer believes that all the cases of 

 malignant garget that have come under his 

 observation have had a common cause, one not 

 mentioned in the books, a sudden increase in 

 the food of the ewe, resulting in perhaps some 

 morbid change in her blood that going to the 

 udder, shortly after her lambing (the period has 



