. Common diseases of farm animals. Veterinary medicine. 258 PARASITIC DISEASES The treatment is largely preventive. Frequent changing of pastures and dry lot feeding are common preventive measures. Permanent sheep pastures lead to heavy losses from stomach worm disease. A very effective preventive measure, as we may term it, is the practice of administering a vermifuge to the ewes in the late summer and again in early winter. This may be given in a drench, or with the feed. This prevents the reinfec- tion of the pastures every spring, and the young lambs are not. Via. 76.—Lamb affected with st
. Common diseases of farm animals. Veterinary medicine. 258 PARASITIC DISEASES The treatment is largely preventive. Frequent changing of pastures and dry lot feeding are common preventive measures. Permanent sheep pastures lead to heavy losses from stomach worm disease. A very effective preventive measure, as we may term it, is the practice of administering a vermifuge to the ewes in the late summer and again in early winter. This may be given in a drench, or with the feed. This prevents the reinfec- tion of the pastures every spring, and the young lambs are not. Via. 76.—Lamb affected with stomach worm disease. exposed to this form of infection. The most effective treatment that the writer has ever used is the following fonnula recom- mended ])y Dr. Law: Arsenous acid one dram, sulfate of iron five drams, powdered areca nut two ounces, common salt four ounces. This is sufficient for one dose for thirty sheep. It may be given with the salt, or in ground feed. If the flock is appar- ently healthy, four doses given at intervals of three days,, is sufficient. If s^nnptoms of stomach worms are manifested the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Craig, Robert Alexander, 1872-. Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company
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