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well in three ounces of linseed gruel, this dose 

 for adult sheep. Lambs will require from one 

 to two drachms, according to their size. 



Any medicine administered to a sheep should 

 be given with the sheep standing in a natural 

 position, with its head raised not too high, and 

 given slowly, so that it may pass at once into 

 the fourth stomach. If it passes into the 

 paunch it will probably not do much good. 



If the kamala does not prove effective Eush- 

 worth advises giving ethereal extract male 

 shield fern, one drachm, castor oil, four ounces, 

 mix and give as a dose to mature sheep. Lambs 

 can have from one to three-fourths of this dose. 



A tonic is then prescribed, consisting of salt, 

 2 pounds, epsom salts, 1 pound, sulphate of 

 iron, one-half pound, powdered gentian, one- 

 half pound, nitrate of potash, 4 ounces. This 

 is to be mixed together and fed to 100 sheep, in 

 oats, bran or other feed. The writer believes 

 good feed and change of pasture will make 

 much tonic unnecessary. 



HUSK, HOOSE OR PAEASITIC BEONCHITIS. 



There is a minute parasitic worm called 

 Strongylus filaria that inhabits the bronchial 

 tubes, causing the animals to cough and run at 

 the nose, sometimes bringing death. In the 

 opinion of the writer this is not a very prev- 

 alent disease in America, fortunately. The 

 remedy is thought to be to fumigate with sul- 

 phur. The writer has tried the remedy and 

 though the lambs treated did not have the dis- 

 ease for which he treated them they mostly sur- 



