WORM IN SHEEP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 10

WORM IN SHEEP.

j ASUCCESTED REMEDY. ; !J. ''.-'. "| " [To'the Editor.]; \'-'. Sir, —In the "Farming News" of i .The Dominion' of .last -Saturday's issue j. I see the lung and.: stomach worm is. i sausing serious, loss .to sheep-owners, [and your correspondent recommends ; drenching with Quibell's dip as a cheap : and effective, cure. I have no/doubt of it, but whether it is \-cheaper than ploughing and' sowing a few acres of !.- white mustard, if you have ploughable •.; country, is a".question lam unable to answer. For many years I was a i breeder of Lincoln sheep, and one year ! I lost; twelve per ceut.. of the lambs [reared. I then thought of a-field. I \ saw .in England'many years "ago infested with wireworm. The land .was i ploughed and sown with white mustard seed in August. The mustard was ploughed'in during tho month of October, and sown with wheat, and tho crop threshed forty bushels to the acre. It then struck me if mustard will kill worms in the ground it will do the same in the sheep's stomach. I tried it, and never lost more than two per cent. \ after. One thing in favour of mustard . is that it never scalds the sheep in the way rape does. I don't think it has the same fattening properties, but it is decidedly a very strengthening medicine. I might add it is no use looking for a second crop, as some seed might ripen and / become a nuisance. Thu sheep should bo put on as soon a& the mustard shows any blossom, and the bind ploughed with a chain dragging in tho furrow, as soon as possible alter being fed down.—l am, etc., JOHN SAXON. Levfn, June 30.

Mangaweka is interesting itself in Bruit-growing. Recently a meeting was • held and the subject discussed. An association is to. be put into operation to "control fruit culture and find markets for tbe fruit grown." A correspondent of an exchange states that "it is oven anticipated that in a few years a canning and preserving works may bo supported."