Arizona republican., 1898-01-01

quickly as it will the parasite. Hence the need of measures of prevention. A brief history of these parasites Gas far as it is known) will help one to combat them. The adult parasites exist in the older sheep, where they do so little harm that their presence is perhaps unsuspected They pro- duce immense numbers of eggs. which either hatch within the sheep and the young worms pass with the excIe ments to the soil, or the eggs them selves pass out and hatch in the soil. After a time, no one knows how long, the young parasite is on the herbage or in the water, and the lamb takes it into the system. If there are but a few of these parasites the lamb does | not suffer much, and no one knows of their presence. If many, the lamb becomes languid, his skin pale, his ap- | petite capricious; he eats earth, rotten wood, anything, suffers for few days 1 or weeks, perhaps constipated, per haps securing, then dies. Medicine rarely helps him. Medicine may have | helped other lambs not so badly af- fected. Should the lung worm para site be the one that is doing the mis- chief no medicine whatever taken in  cure lies through fumigation with sulphur Ca dangerous remedy in un- skilful hands, or through the injec- tion of medicine into the windpipe. Unless the lamb is very valuable he had best be sold to the butcher as soon as symptoms of parasites are ob- served. This is particularly true re- garding the lung worm parasite. Losses from this scourge have been great in Argentina of late, and there is reason for thinking that it is on the increase in the United States.
 To treat lung worm, supposing it to be worth while, procure hypoderm.c syringe holding three spoonfu,s of liquid. NIX well one spoonful of tur- pentine with two spoonfuls of olive oil Shear the wool away from the throat. Grasp the windpipe tightly, and bring it next to the exterior Take care not to bring the jugular ! vein instead of the windpipe. Insert the hypoderm.c needle very carefully (using a coarse one) into the wind pipe. Be sure you insert it below the swallowing point. Inject the turpe1- tine. Let the. sheep go. This is a 1 dose for an average sized sheep; large one will need more One dose
 
 rieties of lung worms that no number of doses will cure. Th:S treatment is the only one in which there is even i hope. It is we'll worth trying on val uable lambs, not emaciated When 1 symptoms of stomach worm are pres i ent the whole flock of lambs should be treated at once. Shut them away i from food for a day, mix a quantity ! Of HIT inc for nd oil
 in the following proportions: One
 part turpentine, eight parts raw lin- seed oil and perhaps eight parts pure
 pine tar. Be very sure that this is
 we'll mixed and kept stirred while
 being used. The dose Is an ource, or about sixteen spoonfuls to a lamb,
 more to a large, nearly grown lamb | Do not give food or water for an hour
 or two. This, crude though it is. is 1 the most successful remedy yet tried. l Turpentine alone is too quickly ab-
 sorbed by the sheep to destroy the
 worms which live in the fourth stom-
 ach; the addition of tar and linseed
 oil retard the absorption and will in
 many cases greatly benefit the ami
 nal. Yet if much emaciation has
 taken place the sheep will probably die
 Prevention is the only successful
 way of managing parasites. This is
 fortunately easy. Lambs should be
 weaned early. They should be pushed
 to quick development, and as soon as
 practicable weaned and taken to fresh
 feeding ground. They should never
 run on pasture where sheep were fed
 the preceding summer, nor where
 sheep manure has been spread, no1 with older sheep. Lambs are born healthy. If they do Tot remain SC
 it is the fault of the management.
 There may be, and probably is, vir. l tue in feeding preventative medicine; l during the summer, such as turpen : tine mixed with salt, but these reme dies are not proven to be effective l. Uninfected grazing, better yet, soilins . in yards and sheds, are the sure pre-. l ventives of disease. Pure water will
 of course, be furnished. That iron g deep wells is safest