. Fig. a—(ESOPHAGOSTOMA. COLUMBIANUM. Caecum showing wall filled with Nodules as seen at a and h. About one-half natural size. (Original.) crisis of what the end may be no one can think, or assert, but every one may consider it as a senous matter for thought and then due action. The importance of this great and most an- cient industry of our race cannot surely be seriously threatened in these days of intelligence and of scientific adaptation of means to ends through all the affairs of mankind. We must always think of that traly scientific maxim, an axiom truly, that is an self-evi- dent truth,


. Fig. a—(ESOPHAGOSTOMA. COLUMBIANUM. Caecum showing wall filled with Nodules as seen at a and h. About one-half natural size. (Original.) crisis of what the end may be no one can think, or assert, but every one may consider it as a senous matter for thought and then due action. The importance of this great and most an- cient industry of our race cannot surely be seriously threatened in these days of intelligence and of scientific adaptation of means to ends through all the affairs of mankind. We must always think of that traly scientific maxim, an axiom truly, that is an self-evi- dent truth, that the fittest only will survive. And the American shepherd must make himself fit by study of his flocks, knowing their full needs, and in all the ways that circumstances may indi- cate and suggest, adapt everything to this one end, viz., to make himself thoroughly conversant with the needs of his flocks, and then apply 'himself with every possible effort to meet these most effectively. THE FLUKE DISEASES OF SHEEP. Among other deadly parasites of sheep the so-called fluke worms, known as Fasciola hepatica and Distoma laneeolatum are the deadliest. They have been known to destroy two million sheep in England in a single year, and several years ago the same


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