The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-11-11 00:00:00

" The 1,. I. that do no Wile,
Mem umalkr I likat tile 'so ;
Lod Uwe again bass lam der.
And no ad infinities' "

Lot me draw your ithenUon to this dime* In Blimp,
etheed by a parasite ogled • Mike or liver lithe. On
wet lands, there is perhaps no musette from whisk the
farmer suffers more than fres the liver fluke. Dr.
Oebbold mys that the ravages of this dame bas bees
of the most disastrous sod extensive thareeter.
writer In the Ndisiswpt Irclo-0142/7 Rain, says that Is
the season of 1831 and 1832 the estimated deaths of
sheep from rot was between see and twe minima
Sup the number to hem Ma oaread-a-lislf
mll us would represent a sum of something like
four salmis sterling. lames of oases hem soeurred
where farmers have lost from three to eight hundred
sheep In • single season, in many mem amass their
complete ruin. The number of flukes Inhabiting •
si+essp's liver Is pometimes very oonsiderahls The eggs
of a fluke may be numbered by thoursods, as found la
the bile contained in the liver elnote. Though of eom-
peratively rare ocourreno• in the human @object, it Is in
an Indirect manner extremely injurious to men. By
It. prevalence In the lower animals It outs off a large
supply of healthy food, st the same time producdog •
quantity of meet unit for the market. het which,
nevertheless, is largely eaten by our poorer Inhabitants
The liver fluke Is not only extremely dilate-motive by
osirreag off thousands of our sheep, but also effects
our larger tattle. The disease therefore Is of great
importheoe, as It oannot fall to prove highly preload.'
to our social listens**. Outbreaks occurred In the years
1809, 'l6. '24, 10. '33. and 'GO. A wet season seems to
farther the multtplioedon of persaites, aid on the other
hand • line dry open meson tends to cheek the growth
and wander logs of the lax, r, thus readmits lb* flocks
imperatively secure. Long continued vet, and a
succession of wet meons, seems particularly favourable
to this disome. Sheep feeding in silt water marshes
earn to be exempt. The mixing of salt with our
sheep and cattle food ',ryes as a premtative and
curative, agent. Moisture being essential to the growth
and development of the fluke larva, sheep esenot be,
Infected as long u they remain on high and dry 'woad/
and even In low pastures, they me scarcely take the
dimes as long se they are folded and fed on key,
turnips, and fodder procured from drier situations.
For rot effected shoe ' my opinion Is that the only way
to treat them to by the free use of malt, transference of
the rot ideated missals to dry emend, good shelter,
supply* them with beans or peas, and the fodder
oonesaatly thaneed. From this ravaging disorder In
sheep mused by parasite*, allow me to direst your
attention to otter disorders in dolmas animals that
have their origin in the preemies of parasitical
creature,. First as to giddiness In sheep. This dis-
order Is mooed by the preemie of hydatids on the
brain, and their premier thee* may he recognised by the
rootless and wandering bable of Ike sheep se armlet
The pussies ceasing this disorder are supposed to be
produced from eggs taken la the food, and afterwards
necking the brain through the shamed ef the blood.
When they bosom, large oe are sameress, they are
the weans of gradually absorbing the brae, Uwe
Is hvery shwa* symptoms. The disease
oult of sure. Trepanning has hese tried,
aad alsoctialihnewite up the nostril bat probably It
ks thew to kill the animals Aliow me in
passing to refer te • leis important Awarder than the
tee let *okras of, sassely, the gape Mamas la took'.
m This is used by • portioulso kindof wens iselmaging
to the order of selerosiame. The remedy adopted by
some is to strip • feather end remove the worm by
pushing the same down the throat, nom people apply
turpentine externally. In the case of partridges bang
affected, ohmage of food and plunk resommeaded with
an Intrados of roe and girlie, Lulea of plain water to
drink. I will now pass eat. taprooms. Tits boom
nihilist le effected by no he. than ten &slime spesies.
The taps-worm Inhabiting Ask exhibits very distiset
sharasterbile from those of birds or melee's, hem-
mush as they are furnished with special hook
appendages empleyed ea sepplemsalsry mesas of
bogies sod meharese. Though doge sad many of oar
dogteeth, animals see °thee pada( topw•croma the/
do not seem to suffer severely frogs their doiag so.
Is rely sem the length of the Parasite bosoms very
peek sad reqaires • correspond's( gustily of nourish-
ment to support it, that it beer beep ths soestitsidos
the mobeol In old& it Is lodged. Though looking
likes worm of many yards in Meg* whoa mom slowly
examined it is found to be a oompossa ealssal,
sembllng very mush • chili, where every link is a
distrait seeture, bet so nailed together as to look
Ilke ass liegihesed out worm Oesiold Tanelles are
bead is the ox, although le no groat extent. The
!arms oif tape-worm abound in tattle while the oesided
In their salt "lunation are of las freepost meerroage.
The fled ewe, although unknown In Blighted, IN
=arty found In India whilst earring set the meat
to the troops. It Is • 'meal Parasite or tape-
worm In an immature state, like that whielt infests the
Mouse body. Experisneats have proved that the ox is
equally liable as the pig to certain Isprworm larva
within the adenines of Mak dash. If • oelf be indeed
to swallow rips eggs of banes tapeworm, the ova
there introdured will la time transform into measles.
Swiss will undergo a large amount of Fantails= with-
out eppereally exhibiting so much suffering as other
soleala Measly pork is more often &Meted than
middy cattle, (the lemon being that fa tie latter the
adr.urralleN are few and far between). The meaele
(sidled Oeirtode Tithercu'osis with equal
propriety), mars in the sheep, pig, cm, or other
animals,. To discover this disease a mloroseope, or at all
events • strong magnifying glass, is required. When
properly developed the beef omelets I loch in diameter,
this being much mailer than the eisserone of the pig.
But there are other aquatic signs of greeter ?sloe.
We may Nally say the' of all the forms of entreat life,
Parasites are possibly the lowest. They are deficient of
many of the organs that Cr, pmesseed by them that are
above them. Thar we may say of Internal worm or
Notosoa In general, the organs of sense, its , seem to be
limited to that of feeling. I. some the digestive orgies
are altogether wasting, the nutriment peastrsting the
tissue as in a fungus or impala. No breathing
apparatus is required, living as tbey frequently live
In eons and eavilmis. These MOMs are prodused by
bidding, macateseous division, or by eggs The embryo
developed from the egg, does not always grow op
Immediately Into an mime' similar to Its parent. Is
transform Itself Into • larva, ramble of giving birth
without fecundation to othsr larva, whisk are alone
capable of becomlog animals similar to ths parent
worm. Them larva are generally found la the tissue
of aelmals vary different from the one In whiels the
perfect worm exists, so that before one of them can
complete Its developerest, it meet be transported Into
another mitoses body. Thus the while cell or mak,
maths a fearful disease In pigs, developing very rapidly I
In the mesmerise tissue' transforms Itself into tape-
worm In the human intestine.. One kind of
worm 'nolo( eve mouths, live. is the pul-
monary cavities of the rattlesnake, mother In the
bladder of frogs, and another In the skin of tho com-
mon worm, thus we hews "A worm upon • worm."
Among the parmilleal °realness that are • great annoy.
thee to our farm stock, may be also noticed here dells
flies on sheep. They dip°s t their eggs on some damp
place In the wool, which soon arrives at the maggot
state, causing great inoonvenienoe and loss. Take too
I are very troublesome to the Lot, yet they tend to
cleanse sway impulties from the skin. And the
masts of the bat, residing in the fronts' sinus, are
aloe Inglefal enemies to the sheep. Omen the. to
seem has bees bums to he*/ the maggot from the
noes. II shop MUM I. boom sout•takses