Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-27

plowed this volunteer clover will ap-
pear from what was thought at the
time to be wasted seed. It is thus
that the farmer who grows clover seed
receives a benefit that comes in the
form likely to do him the greatest
good. He always gets better clover
seeding than he is entitled to from the
seed he has sown. Even if he has
sown none he is reasonably sure of
partial clover seeding. Guilt
vator.
Sheep Diseases and Their Remedies.
Perhaps there is no other domestic
animal that suffers so much from para
sites as 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 as natural to sheep
as the wool itself. But let even half
dozen ticks get on thoughtless shep-
herd and bite all at once, and 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 for blood
and they get it as long as there is
enough left to pay for boring. One
tick on man, says Coleman's Rural
World, will cause him to suspend all 9TH
Ell labors until he gets it off, and if he
believes that sheep has so little sense
of feeling that she can be comfortable
with 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
are 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 affiiction is
perhaps caused by grubs in the head.
Any person who has dissected sleeps
head or seen their skulls lying about
has noticed long, thin, parallel plate
of bone reaching from the nose upward.
1t is between these plates that the larva
Of the gadfy find lodging and food.
They are where the sheep can apply
no force to expel them by either sneez-
ing OF coughing, and are a constant
source of irritation and pain. The
pressure of these in indicated by dis
charges which keep the sleeps nose
filthy and by attempts to sneeze ac-
companied by distressing sounds. A
low condition of the blood, whether
caused by ticks or intestinal worms, is
often shown first in dullness of the
eyes and watery swellings below the
Jaws For dissecting a sheep Profess
sor James Law gives the following di-
rections: "Open up the nose and all
connecting cavities in the head; all the
air passages in the lungs; all the gall
ducts in the liver; the stomach and the
whole length of the intestines; in the
latter case look carefully for the
smallest threadlike worms from one
fifth inch and upward in length. Treat
ment will vary with the species of par
asite and its habitat"
The same authority recommends
the following treatment for various
troubles: For grub in the head: If the
trouble is with grubs about the pass
ages of the head, the sheep may be
turned on its back with the nose ex-
tended and into each nostril may be
poured one ounce of liquid made by
mixing teaspoonful of benzine in a
quart of water. Repeat this daily for
week. A more effective, though
more dangerous, plan is to bore with
trephine or gimlet through the outer
plate of bone on the rounded elevation
on the forehead to the inner side of
each eye, and with a syringe and tepid
water to wash out the cavities. The
water and grubs will flow out through
the nose. Then finally teaspoonful
of the benZine mixture may be injected
on each side and left in the cavity.
For lung worms: Shut the flock into
close room and burn sulphur, pinch by
pinch, until the air is as strongly
charged with the fumes as the sheep
can breathe without violent coughing
or sneezing. Let them breathe this
for half an hour, and repeat it daily
for week. 1t may then be stopped
for month, after which they should
be subjected to second weeks treat
ment, to kill the young worms that
have been hatched out from the eggs
IN the interval.