Show I Tar Treatment Is Urged for Sheep Having Grubs Sheep that are suffering from grubs are not Infested with worms but the larval form torm of ot the sheep gad fly The fly deposits eggs about the nostrils of ot the animals In the warm worm summer lummer weather and these work their way up through the nostrils to the sinuses or spaces In the head Here lIere they remain remain remain re re- main through the winter Inter and drop out the next nert spring pupate In the soil 1011 for tor fora tora a few tew weeks and then hatch Into flies files to repeat the laying egg process the following summer There Is II no practical practical practical treatment for tor removing these larvae grubs from the nostrils once they are there but something can be he bedone bedone done to prevent the gad fly Oy from layIng lay lay- Ing her eggs on the sheep This Is II accomplished by offering ottering the flock a darkened place to retreat Into during the hours of bright sunshine on summer summer sum sum- mer days and by smearing the nose with pine tar tor every three or four tour days The tar tor can be applied d with an old glove or by making a salt box with a alid alid lid ltd In which holes about a foot toot apart and three Inches In diameter have been bored Smear the edges of ot the holes with tar and put salt In the box bOL As AI the sheep reach through for tor the salt they smear the tar on their noses and this has been found effective e In repelling repel repel- ling the flies files which lay the eggs Wallaces' Wallaces Farmer |