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whether grasses or roots, of materials fairly well supplied 
with albuminous constituents, is certain to produce conserva- 
tive results. For this purpose a moderate quantity of linseed- 
cake, or cotton-seed cake, alone or mixed, or of oats with bran, 
beans, or Indian corn, is usually sufficient to give a healthy 
character to nutrition as carried out in bone-tissue. When such 
additional feeding-materials have not been supplied from an 
early period of the creature's life, and this disease should sud- 
denly assert itself, a similar course of management, combined 
with quietness and avoidance of disturbance, may mitigate the 
extent of the loss, and enable the sheep to be fattened for the 
butcher. Their retention as breeding animals is not to be 
advised. 
In the management of the paralytic affection of the younger 
animals — lambs — the employment of curative measures is not 
to be recommended. Under the most careful and judicious 
treatment it is found that only a very small proportion recover, 
even so far as to enable them to be fattened, while the expense 
attendant on their treatment is not compensated for in the 
ultimate results. 
Under skilful management I have found that a few of the 
better and stronger lambs recover, so far as to be able to move 
in a quiet manner, and gather their food, the tendency to death 
being after a little time overcome. The treatment which in these 
exceptional cases I have found attended with best results, 
has been that of supporting the creatures with artificial food of 
an easily assimilated and nourishing character, such as gruel 
made from linseed or pea-meal, with milk given in moderate 
quantities and frequently. A dry comfortable location must be 
provided for them ; and such natural food as they are disposed 
to take should be given in moderation. Of medicinal agents 
the best seem to be preparations of iron, as the carbonate or 
phosphate, with strychnia and quinine. I only mention these 
matters seeing that experimentally I have found them useful, 
not that as a system I can recommend their adoption as a 
pecuniary success. 
To preventive measures, however, every attention ought to be 
directed ; and there is reason to believe that these, when carried 
out strictly and judiciously, will be found attended with a large 
amount of benefit. Seeing that it is a rare circumstance for any 
farm to be composed entirely of the light moory soils, which 
under the conditions already mentioned are liable to exhibit this 
disease, arrangements must be made to keep the breeding ewes 
off the disease-inducing situations during the critical period of 
the year. Where lands of the character indicated have been 
treated as described, neither pregnant ewes, nor ewes with 
