CHAPTER XXn. 

 AITATOMT AUD DISEASES OF SHEEP. -THE HEAD. 



compaeatrvelt smail number op american sheep dis- 

 eases low type op american sheep diseases 



anatomy op the sheep the skeleton the skull 



the horns and their diseases the teeth 



swelled head sore pace swelled lips inflam- 

 mation op the bye. 



Comparatively Small Number op American Sheep 

 Diseases. — Many of the diseases of sheep which are 

 described as comparatively common in Europe, are unknown 

 in the United States ; and this remark applies particularly to 

 those which have proved most destructive in the former. 



I have owned sheep the entire period of my life — a little 

 over half a century — my flock numbering at alternating 

 periods ftom hundreds to thousands. I have for considerably 

 more than half of this period been constantly concerned in 

 their practical management, and a deeply interested observer 

 of them. For more than twenty years I have been engaged 

 in a constant and extensive correspondence in respect to 

 sheep and their diseases, with flock-masters in various portions 

 of the United States, and have been in the frequent habit of 

 inspecting flocks of every size and description, and I never 

 yet have witnessed or had satisfactory proof brought home 

 to me of the existence of a single case of hydatid, water on 

 the brain, palsy, rot, small pox, malignant inflammatory fever, 

 {La Maladie de Sologne,) blain or inflammation of the 

 cellular tissue about the tongue, enteritis or inflammation of 

 the coats of the intestines, acute dropsy or red-water, acute 

 inflammation of the lungs, or of a whole host of other 

 formidable maladies described by every European writer . on 

 the diseases of sheep. I do not aver that they never occur in 

 the United States, but the above facts would seem to show 

 their occurrence must at least be very rare, or confined to 

 localities where they are not recognized. 



