194 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



apart from its fellows in a comer or under a tree, covered 

 with flies and siaking rapidly into extreme debility and 

 death. Intestiaal worms (in cattle, Strongylus Badiatns, 

 Sderostomum Hypostomum, Ascaris Lumbricoides, Tcenie- 

 Expansa, etc., ia foals, Sderostomum Equinum, 8. Teirob- 

 canthum, Ascaris Megahcephala, Oxyuris Gurvvla, etc.,) 

 usually coexist to a most injurious extent, causing diar- 

 rhoea and other irregularities of the bowels. 



In the worst cases death may result ten or fifteen days 

 after the onset, though more commonly it is delayed two 

 or three months and recovery may take place. 



Prevention. In localities and countries to which the 

 disease is new the parasites should be killed out by the 

 continuous medical treatment of the diseased animals, or 

 if necessary their destruction, and the separation of aU 

 horses, asses, mules and cattle, from the infested pasture 

 or its vicinity and from any stream of water running 

 through or close to it ; as well as from aU fodder, roots, 

 grain, etc., grown on such land, for several years after. 

 In infested locahties calves and foals should never be 

 pastured on land recently occupied by older stock of the 

 same kind or allowed access to water used by such stock. 

 Sheep, goats or pigs may be safely fed on such land. 

 Avoid overstocking. Drain the land to clear off pools or 

 wet spots. Keep the young stock from infested or sus- 

 pected pastures while wet with dew and rain, and from 

 clover and aUied plants which by their moisture are liable 

 to harbor the worm. Suspected beasts should be kept 

 apart from the healthy and from healthy pastures until 

 subjected to thorough and continuous treatment. The 

 carcasses of the dead should be very deeply buried, or 

 better, the lungs and windpipe removed and burned to 

 ashes. All exposed animals should be well fed on a diet 

 including dry grain, and should be allowed salt to lick at 

 wiU, this being destructive to the young worms. 



Treatment. Feed hberally on linseed cake, rape cake, 

 cott(ra cake, roots, maize, oats, beans or other sound nu- 



