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T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 15, 
OPHTHALMIA IN SHEEP. 
I have a small flock of sheep, anrt every 
one of them is infected with a disease of 
the eye At first one old ewe got it in her 
left eye, which watered (or water oozed 
out of her eye) and then the lids swelled 
and at last a white scum gathered over the 
eye which hindered her from seeing. It has 
gone through the whole flock. Some of them 
are entirely blind in both eyes. Will you 
give me a treatment for them, if there is 
any? Some of them have the hoof rot and 
run at nose and cough. g. w. d. 
West Virginia. 
From the symptoms described I am in¬ 
clined to think these sheep are suffering 
from a disease of the eye called “enzootic 
ophthalmia,” rather a jaw-breaker, if not 
an eye-opener. Well, the name does not 
signify much to us laymen. What we 
want to know is the cause and remedy. 
Perhaps I would better say what we 
should want to know. I fear most times 
we arc after the remedy, and ignore the 
cause, a most unwise course. This dis¬ 
ease will sometimes attack the flocks in 
an entire neighborhood, and without 
apparent cause. It is contagious, as is 
very apparent in this case. Just here, it 
is well to emphasize this fact, that all 
animals in a low or poor general condi¬ 
tion arc much more liable to diseases and 
disorders than are those in the best physi¬ 
cal condition. Evidently this flock is in 
rather a bad way. I fear there will have 
to be some sheep funerals, and pelts for 
sale, under any treatment. First, I would 
give all the sheep shelter from the wet 
and be sure they have a dry place to lie 
in and are not exposed to drafts. Also 
that they have abundance of good, whole¬ 
some food. There should certainly be 
given a pint of oats daily to each sheep. 
Unless this shelter and food is supplied 
any remedies will be of little value. Then 
separate those with hoof rot from those ; 
not yet affected. 
It is not easy to treat the sheep for the j 
eye difficulty. Give each sheep from two 
to three ounces of Epsom salts. This | 
may be dissolved in warm water and put j 
down their throats from a long-neck bot- 
tie, care being taken not to strangle the | 
sheep. The day following give one-half I 
dram of nitre. Keep the sheep in a 
dark place, not damp. If a cloth can be 
kept over the eyes—a difficult but not im¬ 
possible task—it will be found to help 
materially if such is saturated with a so¬ 
lution of a dram each of nitrate of silver 
and carbolic acid and 10 grains of mor¬ 
phia to one quart of distilled water. In 
any case wash the eyes with above. The 
cough may be nothing more than a cold. 
The nourishing food and shelter are the 
very best things to give. The noses 
may, however, be smeared with tar, which 
will likely help them. The cough may 
be produced by internal parasites, but it 
is not wise to doctor too many things at 
once. A little turpentine sprinkled in 
their salt will do no harm, and may do 
good. After they recover from the eye 
trouble and foot rot, if the cough con¬ 
tinues, write again, and we will try to sug¬ 
gest something for that. 
Now for the foot rot. Take all sheep 
so affected and pare off all outgrowing 
portions of the hoof. It may be necessary 
to start the blood a little. Dissolve as 
much blue vitriol as water will take up. 
As a guide I may say one gallon of water 
will absorb three pounds of vitriol. Place 
this in a little tub, and make the sheep 
stand with their feet in it for at least 
three minutes. This should be followed 
up every second day until the trouble dis¬ 
appears. Care should be taken that the 
feet are cleaned out before the vitriol is 
applied. A piece of old sacking run be¬ 
tween the partings of the hoof is a good 
thing for the purpose. A little spirits of 
turpentine squirted in between and about 
the hoofs will help the healing and take 
away the soreness. I repeat, be sure to 
keep the sheep on dry ground. If this is 
attended to as above a cure will soon be 
effected. If it is neglected and the trou¬ 
ble becomes deep-seated, it will be found 
a most serious thing to deal with. The 
writer speaks from a costly experience 
when he introduced it in his flock from a 
lot of sheep purchased to winter, being in 
the State of Maryland for six weeks. 
When he returned he found that instead 
of attention as above his sheep had been 
treated twice in that interval. It had 
spread to over 100, and was not entirely 
eradicated till well into the Spring. At 
that time and before many remedies have 
been tried, but none so good and simple 
as the one here mentioned. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
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