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Live Stock Import Regulations. 



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used for sheep for some time. If only a few lambs are attacked 

 it will be found eheaper to kill them and dry off the ewes, as 

 only a few attacked lambs grow into sheep which show a 

 profit. If a large number are attacked, as many as possible 

 must be saved, and it is then worth while getting a man to 

 nurse them who does not go near the healthy flock. Bottle 

 feeding will be necessary for the worst cases, and care must be 

 taken that a lamb does not lie always on one side, as the 

 limbs of that side are likely to waste or become paralysed. 

 If a ewe loses her lamb it is not safe in this disease to " split a 

 double " and mother one on to her, as this lamb often becomes 

 attacked, and the expedient must not be resorted to of putting 

 the skin of a ewe's dead lamb on to a lamb to be adopted by 

 her. 



Ewes which have lost their lambs should be carefully watched, 

 as it may be found that germs from the lamb may have got up 

 her teats and produced inflammation of the udder, which, if it 

 does not kill the ewe, will probably prevent the gland secreting 

 milk in the future, and so render her unfit to breed again. 



The site of the lambing yard in which the diseased lambs got 

 infected should be immediately changed, hurdles re-strawed and 

 disinfected. If a field is thought to be responsible, then move 

 the sheep on to fresh ground. In this way it is possible to 

 avert a serious outbreak. 



The following are the regulations for the importation of 

 live stock by sea into Cape Colony. Under Proclamation 

 No. 173 of 19CO no horses, mules, or asses 



Live Stock Import wiU be a n owe d to enter the Colony by sea 

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Cape Colony.* until tney have been examined by an officer 



authorised by the Government and certi- 

 fied by him to be free from glanders or any other infectious 

 or contagious disease. Should the examining officer detect 

 the presence of glanders in any animals on board, these animals 



" Live stock import regulations have been published in this Journal for the 

 United States, Vol. X., No. 1, June, 1903, and Vol. XL, No. 7, October, 1904, and 

 for Argentina, Vol XL No. 10 January. 1905. 



