CHAPTER XXn. 

 AJJATOMT AND DISEASES OP SHEEP. -THE HEAD. 



COMPAEATIVELT SMALL KITMBEK OF AMEKICAN SHEEP DIS- 

 EASES LOW TYPE OP AMEEICAN SHEEP DISEASES 



AlfATOMY OP THE SHEEP THE SKELETON -^ THE SKULL 



THE HOENS AND THEIE DISEASES THE TEETH 



SWELLED HEAD SOEB FACE SWELLED LIPS imPLAM- 



MATION OF THE BYE. 



COMPAEATITELY SmALL NuMBEE OP AmBEICAN ShEEP 



Diseases. — Many of the diseases of sheep which are 

 described as comparatitrely 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 from 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 siogle case of hydatid, water on 

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

 (Zia 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 ^bove facts would seem to show 

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

 localities where they are not recognized. 



