Show I LIVE ITO CK TI v WAY A Y TO PREVENT STOMACH STOl WORMS Various Ulious salt and alt drug mixtures have hav been use used b by sheep raisers who at times give blowing accounts liS as to theIr effectIveness us as stomach worm preventives es lIe Ville mixture of snIt salt und and copperas Is one of at those frequently suggested While this mixture has not been put to test by allY state went ment statIon other mixtures have been tried The results secured In these tests may permit of some general deductions deductions de- de ns as to the effectiveness ot of this method ot of preventing pre stomach worms One Une often hears of at Ue the high em- em dency of tobacco given Jl either In Inthe inthe the salt saU or In the feed as a stomach worm preventive Ic Two tests conducted by bJ the bureau ot of animal Industry ot of the lie United States Department of Agri culture and one test hy by the Ohio ExperIment Experiment Ex- Ex stat rm showed tobacco to tobe tobe be of no value In preventing stomach worms At the Ohio Experiment stan statIon sta- sta lion tIon a group of lambs lamb were allowed salt which had Incorporated In It 1 c C. c. c of 40 per cent nicotine sulphate fur for each ounce of snIt salt This salt and I nicotIne mIxture was so stron strong that It caused the death of one lamb and the of another lamb and yet It had no worth as a stomach worm tire tIve It Is hard to conceIve therefore there there- fore of any an mixture which wIll be effective against stomach worms and yet not harmful to the sheep espe- espe chilly when n a drug such as nicotine sulphate which Is effective when used as a drench falls so completely when In a salt mixture and this even though allowed In n a concentration sufficient to jeopardize the health of at atthe time the sheep |