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tlialine, given twice a day during a week, in from 10 to 15 grain doses, 

 alone, or mixed witii powdered gentian. 



The following recipes, to be used as licks, may be useful in small 

 flocks : 



Take of sulphate of iron, 2 ounces ; calamus root, 1 pound ; of crushed 

 oats and roasted barley malt, of each, 20 quarts. This quantity is 

 sufficient for one hundred sheep. Other mixed grain may be substi- 

 tuted for the barley-malt and oats. Or, sulphate of iron, 1 ounce, and 

 powdered juniper berries and gentian root, t)f each, 1 pound. Mix 

 with 20 quarts of grits. A lick for fifty sheep. 



A very complicated but apparently good tonic remedy is known as 

 Spinola's worm-cake, see page 121. Yieth recommends the following: 

 Oak bark, calamus, gentian root, and juniper berries, of each 2 pounds. 

 Pulverize and add pulverized sulphate of iron, 1 pound; pulverized cook- 

 ing-salt, 10 pounds. Mix thoroughly, and give each sheep a teaspoonful 

 every two or three days. The medicine is most easily administered 

 mixed with meal, chops, bran, etc. Either of the vegetable ingredients 

 of the above recipes can be omitted and substituted by some other well- 

 known tonics, though each is thought to have its special virtues. The 

 dietary treatment is the most valuable. Grain-feeding, mashes, strong 

 meals, as flax seed meal cakes, or cotton-seed oil cakes, can be given in 

 judicious quantities. The general treatment should embrace every 

 means known to the flock-master to sustain the.health of the flock. 



Police sanitation. — The meat of sheep affected with liver-rot is safe to 

 eat, but in advanced stages of the disease it is too watery, lean, and in- 

 nutritious to be wholesome food, and is only an inferior article. When 

 killed during the early stages of the disease it is more salable and nutri- 

 tious. Later on, it should not be put on the market or received by 

 buyers. 



