Show ro n 0 MIA U PREVENT DISEASES OF PREGNANT EWES in late into winter lind early spring unless special precautions ara are taken a form of self poisoning or autointoxication among pregnant owes Is liable to occur and prove fatal this als dl a easo ease has for years puzzled all students of the subject but a method of prevention ro tion lias has been devi devised aed the lymp toms shown by affected ewes aro are these the animal lags ties down a grent great deal loses appetite grits its teeth staggers may toss its head backward Is constipated und and suon goes down it Is unable to rise and soon dies when opened after death the gall bladder Is usually found greatly distended and tile the liver Is pale in color and so friable tind easily broken that it Is termed rotten by the shepherd often there seems to be but little blood in the body it may be added that sometimes the tissues of tile the body lire fire stained a yellowish color indicating di jaundice almost invariably the train of conditions and circumstances leading up to the attack are close confinement and lack of exercise and prolonged excessive feeding of coarse dry bulky constipating roughage especially timothy tiny hay weh weathered corn stover and straw or withered frozen grass tile the ewes may also have been fed corn and sometimes are fat and often sluggish there can be little question 1 I think that of poisons generated in the digestive tract Is the direct cause of the ailment the liver having been overtaxed and made unable perfectly to perform its functions one of which Is the elimination or destruction of the poisons mentioned no medicinal remedy has been found but the disease may bo be prevented by making pregnant ewes take active exercise dally daily keeping their bowels and kidneys active and avoiding the weakening effects of close housing in a hot dirty badly venti stable to that end make the ewes walk several miles dally daily to get clover or alfalfa hay bay scattered over a distant dist ant field feed each owe ewe two pounds of roots root d dally ally avold avoid feedle the constipating hages mentioned feed oats and bran to weak ewes and for all sheep provide airy sanitary stables ables Bt A S A of wisconsin in successful farming |