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of the day. And although we may now and again effect a 
cure in rot, I ask.what real practical or profitable value is it 
to the farmer or community at large ? Had we not better 
turn our attention to the measure which the old axiom tell us 
is far better than cure, viz.:— 
PREVENTION. 
Before attempting to suggest any preventive measures, it 
will first be necessary to offer a little explanation as to when 
they can be best effected. 
The first period—This may be set down from July to 
November, according to the state of the weather as already 
mentioned, when the pnpce are taken into the stomach with 
the food, to find their way to the bile ducts of the liver for 
location and development. 
The second stage may be reckoned as occurring from 
September to January. This is the time when the sheep 
begin to show signs of the infection. 
The third period may be stated to be from January to May 
or even into June; the fluke, as already stated, being bisexual, 
during this latter stage commences to breed, and deposits the 
ova or eggs into the bile which are carried w T ith that fluid 
into the intestines, and finally dropped upon the ground, to 
undergo the transformations out of the body—always bearing 
in mind that this occurs in the spying months only , as previously 
named. 
It will be remembered that, on the deposition of the ova, it 
is essential, in order to continue the transformations, that the 
eggs be deposited on .a moist fresh water surface, thus proving 
