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urine will not readily escape through the incision. 

 With animals not especially valuable, the wisest course 

 is to slaughter at once. If done before the general 

 health is affected, the flesh will not be unfit for food. 

 This trouble not infrequently affects highly fed 

 winter lambs. They stand with arched back, appear 

 stiff in hind quarters, and urine dribbles from them. 

 In cases in which lambs were too small for market, I 

 have cut the urethra off just above the scrotum 

 and drawn the end out through the skin, letting the 

 urine escape in this way until the lamb was large 

 enough to slaughter. Occasionally calculi gather 

 at the end of the penis of old rams. These are more 

 easily removed. Sometimes shearers cut the long 

 hairs that protrude from the urinal vent. The stubs 

 then grow into the tissues and produce an annoying 

 sore. Usually careful examination will suggest the 

 treatment necessary. 



Entropia, sore eyes. — Lambs are born, frequently, 

 especially Merinos, with one or both eyelids turned 

 under so that the lashes irritate the eye. In a very 

 few days, the eye shows inflammation and the cheek 

 below the eye will be wet. It is usually the lower lid. 

 The trouble is easily remedied by taking a shallow 

 stitch in the skin near the edge of the offending eyelid 

 and then in the skin of the cheek an inch below, 

 and tying the thread so as to hold the lashes away 

 from the eye. Usually nothing further is necessary. 

 The stitch will cut its way out within a few days and 



