Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-12

gruo must pass through bone in or
der to reach the Sleeps brain.
The facts are as follows: The grub
passes up the nostril. in cavities be-
tween the two skull bones, the outer
and inner, to the base of the horn lif a
horned sheep, if not the same cavity is
there, then turning downwards under
the eye bone, passes to the nerve ofthe
eye, into the brain, when their final
work is done, and there is no bone to
oostruct their passage. Nevertheless
tney possess the power of penetrating
the bony substance, even though in
Passing in the brain it is not necessary
to penetrate any bone.
1 have known an instance in my own
flock, in catching ram in the spring
by the horn, to tag him, the horn came
off in my hand, the pith all eaten out,
and the cavity filled with grubs.
could see other grubs still in the head.
l blew dry ashes into the hole in the
head on to the grubs, which caused
them to run down out of the nostril,
then placed tarred rag over the cavi-
ty, and soon the skull bones closed to-
gether, and the ram in this condition,
with one horn, lived for many years,
and proved to be very valuable stock
getter.
will refer to one more instance. l
had another very valuable buck, with
horns in the same condition. / took
hold of the horns and they were loose.
then cut holes at the base of the horns
in front, and blew in dry ashes and
over thirty grubs passed out of his
nostrils. The pith again grew in the
horns, and the horns became solid rs
before, and in two years the old shell
dropped from the new horn thus form
ed. In this way l saved the rams life
and he proved afterwards to be very
noted stock getter.
In regard to the "Sheep Gad-hy"
have made the following observations.
In 1880 while feeding my sheep in
troughs saw one blow grub out of
its nostril. then took the grub and
put it into lock of greasy wool in
which it Immediately buried itself, and
placed the WOOL and grub into glass
and set it on the mantle piece. In
three days the grub was in chrysaRs
form. In about eighteen days | OBJ
served a Gad-hy making its exit from
the large end of the clrysolis. Keeping
that fly for long time in a glass for the
purpose of experimenting | found that
it had no inclination to eat anything
by this means | was enabled to tell the
gad-fy whenever l saw one.
In 1882 | caught two grubs and ex-
perimented in similar way After
these grubs had Matched and the flies
were ten days old l dissected them and
found each one filled with grubs, easily
seen by the naked eye as they crept
over my knife blade. This excited my
curiosity and commenced experiment
ting and to this day have never been
able to find a male gad-hy.
l have tried various ways to kill
these gad-flies. l find that dry ashes
or air Stacked lime is the best remedy,
as it causes immediate death, for the
reason that the grub breathes through
the pores of the skin, and dry ashes or
air Stacked lime stops up these pores,
and smothers the grub.
1t is held by the authors which |
have cited. that farmers are in the
habit of attrihuting the death of their
sheep to this grub when in fact
the death is more often caused by
other diseases; while in my opinion
there are more sheep which die from
this disease than from all other diseas-
es put tog ether, and that farmers fire.
quently attribute the death of their
sheep to other causes, when in fact
they ought to attribute it to the grub.
All sheep are more or less affected
with this grub, and if an examination
should be made any time during the
summer, grubs would be found. If
maturing in warm weather they turn
down and do not injure the sheep, I'm
less the sheep is a lamb and the nostril
too small to discharge the grub when
full grown. In cold, long winters sheep
are more liable to be injured by the
grub than in short winters. In the fall
of the year if you give the sheep access
to dry ashes or lime, it will cause them
to sneeze and blow out the grubs which
are not far up in the head. This is my
best remedy, and the safest and surest
remedy of which have any knowledge,
and of the two l consider the lime the
better.