PREVENTION OF WORMS IN SHEEP.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 5 June 1895, Page 3

PREVENTION OF WORMS IN SHEEP.

"Bruni" has a very interesting note on worms in sheep. Ho says : —"The drenches that have been brought into use act well in some instances, and in others appear to fail. The most important object with tiro Australian sheep-farmer is to find somo means of giving the young sheep immunity from this desease. Some years ago, while on a visit to Mount Garnbier, I met with an instance in which the woanors in a piece of very wormy country escaped tho attacks of worms and came into tho shed at two-tooth as largo in framo as tho ordinary worm-infested four-tootlis. Tho plan adopted was this :—Tho lambs, when weaned, were put on turnips, and the result was that not a sheep was attacked with worms. It would appear that there is sonic principal in the b.rassica family of plants that gives the lambs immuuitv from tho attacks of worms. I have hoard that cabbage, mustard, or rape will answor tho purpose quite as well as tho turnip. Rape can be grown over a largo area of Australia, and as it is a more certain crop than any of the fodder plants named, it may be worth the while of the stockowncr to give it a trail. The cost of growing the plant will lie a sma'l price to pay to securo the health of the young sheop of the ilock."