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Rot in Sheep. 



accesh to lumps of rock salt, and where sheep are getting cake, 

 corn, chaff, and so on, a little salt (J oz. per head per day), 

 mixed with such food should always be provided when fluke is 

 to be feared. 



If practicable, it is desirable to place the animals on higher 

 and dryer ground. 



Do not overstock the pasture or eat it too bare. 



Do not leave the sheep long on the same land. 



A most important thing is to cart away at once or cover up 

 with gas lime the mud, reeds, &c, taken from ditches, pools, 

 and ponds when being cleaned out. Numbers of the snails and 

 their eggs, and often the parasites within them, are destroyed 

 when gas lime is put over this rubbish. 



Finally : — Whenever rot is suspected in a flock of sheep, sharp 

 observation over the animals will often enable the owner to 

 detect the disease before it has made any serious interference 

 with the health of the majority ; and if, on a post-mortem 

 examination of the first suspected cases, flukes are found in the 

 bile ducts of the liver, it becomes an important question to the 

 owner whether it would not be to his interest to slaughter the 

 whole of them at once, while they are in a marketable condition, 

 rather than allow the disease to continue, since by leaving the 

 animals alive they will probably be the means of permanently 

 infecting his pastures.* 



* Copies of this article in leaflet form may be obtained, free of charge and post free, 

 on application to the Secretary, Board of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, S.W. 



