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ones as fast as practicable. Little or nothing in 

 the way of medication can be done to cure the 

 afflicted sheep. Prevention of the disease by 

 right treatment of the young ones is fortunately 

 easy. 



TAPE WOEMS. 



There are occasionally outbreaks of disease 

 caused by tape worms. Montana and Dakota 

 have suffered from these outbreaks, also vari- 

 ous regions in the Eastern states. The writer 

 has never obsei-ved a case of this kind upon the 

 farm occupied by himself and his brothers and 

 attributes this freedom from infection in part 

 at least to the free feeding of pumpkins in the 

 fall of almost every year. Pumpkin seed are 

 well known vermifuges of great value. 



The tape worm of sheep, taenia expansa, 

 varies in length from three to six yards. It is 

 from one twenty-fifth of an inch in breadth at 

 the head to one-half an inch at the tail. In ap- 

 pearance it is a dull white. It causes scouring, 

 bloodlessness, white skin, emaciation, weakness 

 and sometimes death. 



The treatment should be to each one of the 

 affected flock. Prepare them for treatment by 

 fasting for 12 hours. After being treated they 

 should be confined for 24 hours so that the seg- 

 ments of tape worm expelled will not be scat- 

 tered over the fields, to further infect them. 

 The sheep should after treatment has been 

 deemed satisfactory be put on clean, fresh 

 ground. 



Doctor Eushworth recommends kamala_ for 

 tape worms. The dose is three drachms mixed 



