Show I 1 bicarbonate of soda Is efficient as corrective Blear bicarbonate bonate of soda has often been suggested as an effi efficient clent corrective ol of sundry young lamb troubles when bought by the ke keg or from the dru drug 9 gist who confesses it Is cheap by th the keg any farmer can afford to use it it says a writer inthe ohio farmer popularly in case of human diges tion this baking soda Is supposed tc be merely an active corrective of sold acid digestion but here and there one finds people having long iong used soda as a cathartic the sheep man who Is at all troubled with constipation of ewes or lambs or who loses large larga lambs in fits of acute indigestion or lamb cholera may well try it a dash of soda in the salt before lambing and quite liberal libera era use nse in salt until the lambs are well started the writer had bad often used a half and half mixture of salt and bicarbonate of soda under such circumstances laxative feed of course Is the rational corrective but all barme farmers rs with sheep cannot always control this factor much as they might wish it IL |