A STUDY OF DISEASE IN GENERAL. 149- 



Frequent causes of disease/ among sheep are unsuitable 

 pastures, containing an excess of laxative or perhaps astringent 

 herbs; the excessive feeding of roots, siich as turnips, grazing on 

 rye or old dead grass, even salt in some cases causes plethora, 

 and many such simple causes are all fertile disease-breeders to 

 sheep, showing that what at one time may constitute a healthful 

 article of diet, at others becomes a menace to the animal's exist- 

 *once. When studying the cause of obscure maladies all the 

 above causes must' be taken into consideration, as also the nature 

 of the soil and composition of drinking water, and everything 

 with which the animals have come in contact. Overcrowding in 

 feeding lots, or overstocking of pastures, want of exercise, all 

 are prejudicial to a normal, healthy condition. 



Disease in many instances can be prevented by a proper re- 

 gard to sanitation, only exhibiting healthy diet, taking into con- 

 sideration all the common causes of disease, and removing the 

 same where possible, in fact the judicious use of common sense 

 as applied to sheep raising will be found generally more profit- 

 able than medication. 



