102 The Famier's Veterinary Adviser. 



apart from its fellows in a comer or under a tree, covered 

 with flies and sinking rapidly into extreme debility and 

 death. Intestinal worms (in cattle, Strongylus Badiatus, 

 Sclerostomitm Hypostomum, Ascaris Lumbricoides, Tcenie 

 Expansa, etc., in foals, Sclerostomum Eqidnum, S. Tetra- 

 canthum, Ascaris Ilegalocephala, Oxyuris Gurvnla, etc.,) 

 usually coexist to a most injurious extent, causing diar- 

 rhoea and other irregularities of the bowels. 



In the worst cases death may result ten or fifteen days 

 after the onset, though more commonly it is delayed two 

 or three months and recovery may take place. 



Prevention. In localities and countries to which the 

 disease is new the parasites should be killed out by the 

 continuous medical treatment of the diseased animals, or 

 if necessary their destruction, and the separation of all 

 horses, asses, mules and cattle, from the infested pasture 

 or its viciaity and from any stream of water running 

 through or close to it ; as well as from all fodder, roots, 

 grain, etc., grown on such land, for several years after. 

 In infested localities calves and foals should never be 

 pastured on land recently occupied by older stock of the 

 same kind or allowed access to water used by such stock. 

 Sheep, goats or pigs may be safely fed on such land. 

 Avoid overstocking. Drain the land to clear off pools or 

 wet spots. Keep the young stock from infested or sus- 

 pected pastures while wet with dew and rain, and from 

 clover and allied plants which by their moisture are liable 

 to harbor the worm. Suspected beasts should be kept 

 apart from the healthy and from healthy pastures until 

 subjected to thorough and continuous treatment. The 

 carcasses of the dead should be very deeply buried, or 

 better, the lungs and windpipe removed and burned to 

 ashes. All exposed animals should be weU fed on a diet 

 including dry grain, and should be allowed salt to lick at 

 will, this being destructive to the young worms. 



Treatmenf,. Feed liberally on linseed cake, rape cake, 

 cotton cake, roots, maize, oats, beans or other sound nu- 



