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Show j LIVESTOCK j NEWS Sheep Are Particularly Subject to Parasites (Prepared by the Unltc-d Slates Department of Agriculture.) Sheep probably suffer more from parasites than do any other kind of live stuck, Pays the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture in a publication publica-tion Just issued entitled "Farmers' I'.uHotin lo.'iO, Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep," by Maurice C. Hall of the bureau of animal industry. Most of our losses in sheep, mutton, and wool are from . animal parasites, as sheep suffer comparatively little from bacterial diseases, it is said. Lambs and young animals are most susceptible suscepti-ble to parasites and suffer from them. Special emphasis is placed In the bulletin upon disease prevention. It is the sheepman's business to prevent disease, and ae soon as an outbreak Is noticed a competent veterinarian should be called In. Act promptly, the department urges, to ascertain the trouble when sheep become unthrifty. A postmortem examination of one of the sick animals may disclose the trouble trou-ble and save others. Parasitized animals ani-mals usually do not have fever they are unthrifty, and unthrlftlness may go on to emaciation with a fatal termination. ter-mination. Pasture rotation, use of forage crops, feeding from racks or bare floors, draining or filling swamps, and restraint re-straint of wandering dogs are measures meas-ures the department recommends as being of value In parasite control. It points out emphatically that permanent perma-nent pastures perpetuate parasites. Parasite eggs pass In the manure, usually. The disposal of the manure determines the fate of these eggs, whether they find their way back into the animals and hatch out or not. Copies of the bulletin may be had without cost, as long as the supply lasts, by writing to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. O. |