SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 38 1 



cold; the eyes pale and glassy; the pulse is irregular; breathing is slow, 

 and the expirations short and sudden; the dung is dry, hard, black, and 

 glazed with a greasy yellowish-green mucus; the urine is highly colored, 

 scanty, hot, and smells disagreeably. Pressure on the right side, near 

 the short ribs, produces pain, and the animal moans. 



The treatment consists of purgatives and injections. For a purgative 

 the following may be given twice a day in infusion of linseed or gum 

 Arabic, or in molasses, well mixed together and placed on the tongue : 



2 drams Salpliato of Potash, 



6 grains Calomel, 



1 grain Powdered Opium. 



Injections of warm water and castile soap may be given until the 

 bowels act freely. 



When improvement occurs, and the appetite returns, great care in 

 feeding should be observed, and only the most easily digested food 

 should be given. Pulped sugar beet, scalded clover-hay, chaff, lin- 

 seed-meal, boiled meat, or sifted corn-meal, may be given with 

 linseed tea for drink, or water acidulated with a few drops of aromatic 

 sulphuric acid. 



Poisoned by Sheep I^aurel. The narrow-leaved Kalmia, (Kal- 

 mia angustifolia) is commonly called sheep laurel, because at certain 

 seasons of the year the sheep seems tempted to eat of the plant, which 

 often proves fatal to them. When poisoned by this plant they are lazy, 

 disinclined to move, froth at the mouth and nose, have a slower pulse 

 than usual, blood-shot eyes and a staggering gait. I^aurel poisoning is 

 usually fatal within ten or twelve hours, and therefore immediate atten- 

 tion is necessary. Give at least two ounces of Epsom salts in a pint of 

 warm water, and give a pint of warm water every hour thereafter for 

 three or four hours. Use rectum injections of warm soap suds or oil, 

 which will help the poisonous matter to pass out of the bowels. Sheep 

 should not be allowed during the spring or winter to pasture where a 

 laurel grows. Beside the common sheep laurel, they will also feed on 

 the large leaved laurel, (Kalmia lati folia). 



Injurious Bflfects of Plaster and I/ime. It is very injurious 

 to sheep to turn them upon a pasture that has been freshly sown with 

 phosphate, bone-dust, plaster or lime, until there has been sufficient rain 

 to thoroughly wash these from the grasses. 



Inflammation of the Bladder. This is the most frequent of the 

 diseases of the urinary organs. It is induced by eating too often and 



