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she went with the flock again, her udder com- 

 pletely gone and only a partly healed surface 

 to show where it had sloughed off. 



The books prescribe for malignant garget 

 hot water, camphor, applied externally, and 

 epsom salts and iron and quinine taken inter- 

 nally. The writer after faithful efforts with 

 hot water and all the rest of the remedies does 

 not feel that he has ever in one instance even 

 mitigated the horrors of this form of garget, 

 so will not burden the reader with his recipes. 

 Let the shepherd experiencing his first instance 

 of trouble resolve that hereafter his ewes shall 

 have the most gradual increase in feed after 

 lambing, that they shall be given little com 

 and more bran, oats and early-cut clover or 

 alfalfa hay, with roots or silage to make milk 

 and that by this means he can prevent future 

 inflictions of this nature. 



For the simpler form of caked bag, however, 

 hot water applications are doubtless good, with 

 rubbings of camphor and belladonna, and some 

 have recommended counter irritants like kero- 

 sene oil. This form will never occur either if 

 the shepherd will keep the ewe milked out after 

 lambing, and perhaps sometimes just before 

 lambing if she is a wonderful milker, and will 

 feed right, taking care also at weaning time. 



GRUB IN THE HEAD. 



Most of the old sheep books have chapters 

 on this disease. It seems therefore the duty 

 of the writer to do likewise, although he must 

 confess that his practical experience with the 



