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Prevention. Angora goats should not be transported long 

 distances, and especially to a higher altitude or more northern 

 latitude except during late spring and in summer when the in- 

 creasing warmth will compensate for the change. Comfortable 

 sheds or well drained soil should be accessible at all times to pro- 

 tect against severe rain or snow storms and wet beds. The absence 

 of yolk in the fleece allows the water to penetrate much more 

 easily than in the sheep. A generous diet should be allowed, to 

 maintain the bodily vigor and enhance the resistance to bacterial 

 invasion. Attempts at immunization by the subcutaneous in- 

 jection of the sterilized blood or cultures, gave contradictory re- 

 sults. 



The most important precaution is to prevent any sale or move- 

 ment of goats from any infected flock until the disease has been 

 completely extirpated. No infected flock, nor goat, should be 

 allowed on a watershed which drains into pastures or drinking 

 places of goats lower down. The young should be placed on new 

 sound pastures, and if the dams of any are infected, the latter 

 should be furnished with healthy nurses, (common goats or 

 sheep) or brought up by hand. Imports from Asia Minor or any 

 other infected country should be received only on oflBcial cer- 

 tificate that they came from an uninfected district, and on arrival 

 should be quarantined and disinfected. Such measures may ap- 

 pear harsh, but this is a very deadly infection, and the suscepti- 

 ble animals in the United States are as yet in small numbers, so 

 that extinction and exclusion of this disease would far more than 

 compensate for the outlay. In the single epizootic in Cape Colony, 

 introduced in 1880 by an importation from Angora, the goats 

 were sold to different farmers, more than 12,000 goats sticcumbed, 

 and 6,640 more were sacrificed to stamp out the plague. 



Treatment. As in other infections, propagated through the 

 animals, and not resident in the soil, treatment should never re- 

 place prevention, and complete extinction. Yet in properly 

 isolated places the sick may be treated. Mohler and Washburn 

 got the best results from i yi grain doses of calomel twice daily 

 for two days, followed on the third day by : Arsenious acid i 

 grain : Iron reduced (or sulphate) 12 grains : sulphate of quinine 

 2 grains : Repeat this night and morning for ten days : then, 

 after two days interval, repeat the course. 



