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Show Keep Them Healthy To reduce lamb and sheep losses from dogs and wolves, use truck flares placed in holders on top of steel posts driven into the ground. Sheep learn to gather near the ' flares at night. Wolves and dogs are kept away by the flicker of the flame and the odor. If DDT fails to control flies around the barn, it's probably because there are manure piles or old strawstack bottoms nearby. These breeding places can turn out flies faster than DDT can kill them. Blackhead of turkeys is caused j by an organism that is carried by cecal worms. Phenothiazine is ef- ! fective in removing these worms from chickens and turkeys. Many turkey raisers now give phenothiazine phenothia-zine in the mash every three or four weeks to prevent outbreaks of black- j head. i |