The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-24
sheep Diseases and Their Remedies.

Perhaps there is no other domestic
animal that suffers so much from para
sites rs the sheep. First, Of course,
comes the sheep-tick They are on
almost all sheep and are so common
that many people seem to regard them
as unavoidable and MS natural to sheep
as the wool itself But let even half
dozen ticks get on a thoughtless shep-
herd and bite all at once, aud he will
begin to realize the agony of the young
lamb with thousand on him, as Is
often the case Just after the sheep are
sheared. They are all there fer blood
and they get it as long as there IS
enough left to pay for boring One
/ tick on q man, says Coleman's Rural
/ World will cause him to suspend all 9th
er labors until he gets it of, and if he
/ believes that sheep has so little sense
/ of feeling that she can be comfortable
with a tick gnawing at every square
inch. he should have regard enough
for his pocket to stop feeding so many
mouths that give no income. Sheep
are often so reduced in flesh and
strength by these pests alone that they
ere supposed to be afflicted with some
strange epidemic; and they are more
liable to other maladies than if they
could have the benefit of all the food
they eat.
The next most painful affection is
perhaps caused by grubs in the head.
Anyperson who has dissected a sleeps
5 head or seen their skulls lying about
+ has noticed long, thin, parallel plate
of bone reaching from the nose upward.
f 1t is between these plates chat the larya
e OF the gadfy find lodging and food.
i They are where the sheep can apply
b no force to expel them by either sneez-
u ing or coughing, and are a constant
n source of irritation and pain. The
t pressure Of these in indicated by dis
a charges which keep the sleeps nose
filthy and by attempts to sneeZe &C
companied by distressing sounds. A
!, low condition of the blood, whether
+, caused by ticks or intestinal worms, IS
II often shown first in dullness of the
70 eyes and watery swellings below the
n jaws. For dissecting q sheep PROBES
N sor James Law gives the following di-
" rections: "Open up the nose and all
r connecting cavities in the head; all the
70 air passages in the lungs; all the gall
n ducts in the liver; the stomach and the
70 whole length of the intestines; in the
re- latter case look carefully for the
an smallest threadlike worms from one
a. fifth inch and upward in length. Treat
n ment will vary with the species of par
90 asite and its habitat.
be The same authority recommends
m the following treatment for various
d, troubles: For grub in the head: If the
gh trouble is with grubs about the pass
IS, ages Of the head, the sheep may bC
Ia turned on its back with the nose ex
ng tended and into each nostril may b,
ID poured one ounce Of a liquid made b.
re mixing teaspoonful of benzine in
nd quart of water. Repeat this daily TO
week. A more effective, though
we more dangerous, plan is to bore wit
To- trephine or gimlet through the QUITE
OH plate of bone on the rounded elevation
lat on the forehead to the inner side c
be each eye, ana with syringe ana U6pl
in water to wash out the cavities. Th
Ter water and grubs will flow out throug
be the nose Then finally teaspoonfJ
my of the benzine mixture may be injecte
wo on each side and left in the cavity
.gh For lung worms: Shut the flock into
5he close room and burn sulphur, pinch !
red pinch, until the aiB is as strongl
cry charged with the fumes as the shee
the can breathe without violent coughir
be or sneezing. Let them breathe th
Ter. for half an hour, and repeat 1t dali
yer for q week It may then be stoppe
sas- for a month, after which they sbou
ital be subjected to second weeks trea
his ment, to kill the young worms tn
have been Matched out from the egt
clio IA the interval.