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tritious diet to wMch may be added a mixture in equal 

 parts of sulphate of iron, gentian and ginger, in proportion 

 of four ounces to every ten calves of three months. To 

 destroy the intestinal worms, give every morning, fasting, 

 a tablespoonful of table salt or an equal amount of oil of 

 turpentine shaken up with milk. For the lung parasites, 

 place the affected animals in a close building and burn 

 pinch after pinch of flowers of sulphur on a piece of pa- 

 per laid on an iron shovel, until the air is as much charged 

 with the fumes as they can bear without coughing vior 

 lently. The administrator must stay with them in the 

 building to avoid accidents and keep up the application 

 for half an hour at a time. It should be repeated several 

 days in succession, and at intervals of a week for several 

 weeks, so as to kill the young worms as they are hatched 

 out in successive broods, and not until all cough and ex- 

 citement of breathing have passed should the animal be 

 considered as safe to mix with others or to go on a healthy 

 pasture. 



SYMPTOMS IN SHEEP, GOAT AOT) CAMEL. VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS. 



These are the exact counterpart of those in the calf. 

 There is a short, dry, sonorous cough, with a frothy dis- 

 charge from the nose containing worms or their eggs, loss 

 of appetite, rapid wasting, diarrhoea, shedding or drying 

 and flattening of the wool, excessive thirst and irregular 

 or depraved appetite, there being a disposition to eat 

 earth. In the advanced stages the cough becomes very 

 harassing and death may ensue from suffocation. Intes- 

 tinal parasites (Strongylvs Contmius, 8. Badiatus, 8. Fili- 

 colis, 8derostomum Hypostomum, Tania Expansa, and per- 

 haps Sderostomum Duodencde,) are even more numerous 

 and injurious than in calves. 



Prevention. All the measures advised for the disease in 

 calves will apply equally well here, with this proviso, that 

 the parasites only affect sheep, goat, dromedary and camel, 

 BO that they only must be kept apart, while infested past- 



