TiENIA IN LAMBS. 
447 
The cause of these worms was not very apparent. Mr. 
Crafer has been at Longford many years, but his lambs have 
always been healthy heretofore, and his sheep have been kept 
as usual, during the last winter and spring, on hay and 
turnips. 
In these, the first cases that I had attended, I came to the 
conclusion that the large quantities of turnips, first in a 
frozen, and afterwards in a decomposed state, had vitiated 
the ewes’ milk, and produced these parasites in the lambs. 
But since then the lambs of other breeders have suffered, and 
are suffering from the same disease, some of whom have 
given them few turnips, or none. Pray then what is the 
cause? Is it produced in the lambs from the sheep being 
debilitated by the severe winter? or is it atmospherical? 1 
have said I neglected my own sheep at first, but for nearly 
two months after I gave the ewes corn very freely, and my 
Iambs are all doing well at present. I likewise know other 
instances where good corn was given to the sheep freely 
before lambing, with corresponding good keep, and the lambs 
are also doing well. Several farmers attribute the malady to 
the late cold spring ; and one farmer says that it was one 
week in particular of cold and wet that produced it. 
The treatment that suggests itself is — stop the cause, and 
the effect will cease — i. e., wean the lambs and destroy the 
parasites. The following mixture has been found generally 
successful, if the lambs are not too much debilitated by the 
disease. 
1^> Tinct. Assafoetidse, 
01. Terebinth., et 
01. Lini, aa partes equates. 
Misce fiat mistura. 
One table-spoonful to be given to a lamb of medium size 
every third day. 
I have omitted to say that I have sent this for publication 
in The Veterinarian , if deemed by you sufficiently interesting. 
My next communication shall be on a new and generally 
successful mode of operating for hydrops uteri in our domestic 
animals, and which I have adopted now for several years 
past. 
