The horse and other live stock . bleeding andpurging are serviceable. Catarrh rarely attacks the American fine-woolled sheepwith sufficient violence in summer to require the applicationof remedies. Depletion, in catarrh, in our severe wintermonths, however, rapidly produces that fatal prostration, fromwhich it is almost impossible to bring the sheep back, withoutbestowing an amount of time and care upon it, costing farmore than the worth of an ordinary animal. The best course is to prevent the disease by judicious pre-caution. With that amount of attention which every prudent MALIGNANT EPIZOOT
The horse and other live stock . bleeding andpurging are serviceable. Catarrh rarely attacks the American fine-woolled sheepwith sufficient violence in summer to require the applicationof remedies. Depletion, in catarrh, in our severe wintermonths, however, rapidly produces that fatal prostration, fromwhich it is almost impossible to bring the sheep back, withoutbestowing an amount of time and care upon it, costing farmore than the worth of an ordinary animal. The best course is to prevent the disease by judicious pre-caution. With that amount of attention which every prudent MALIGNANT EPIZOOTIC CATARRH. 203 farmer should bestow on his sheep, the American Merino isbut little subject to it. Good, comfortable, and well-ventilatedshelters, constantly accessible to the sheep in winter, with asufficiency of food regularly administered, are usually a suffi-cient safeguard. MALIGNANT EPIZOOTIC CATARRH. Essentially differing, in type and virulence, from the preced-ing, is an epidemic, or, more properly speaking, an epizootic. AN ENGLISH RACK FOB FEEDING SHEEP. malady, which, as often as once in every eight or ten years,sweeps over extended sections of the Northern States, destroy-ing more sheep than all other diseases combined. It com-monly makes its appearance in winters characterized by rapidand violent changes of temperature, which are spoken of bythe farmers as bad winters for sheep. The disease is some-times termed the distemper, and also, but erroneously, grub in the head. The winter of 1846-Y proved peculiarlydestructive to sheep in ISew York, and some of the adjoiningStates ; seme owners losing one-half, others three-quarters, anda few seven-eighths, of their flocks. One person lost five 204 SHEEP AND THEIR DISEASES. hundred out of eight hundred ; another, nine hundred out of athousand. These severe losses, however, mainly fell on theholders of the delicate Saxons, and perhaps, generally, onthose possessing not the best accommodations, or the greatestdegree of energ
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