Lungworm in Sheep and Horses.

Otago Witness, Issue 1974, 19 September 1889, Page 9

Lungworm in Sheep and Horses.

Editor /Witness,— Sir : I would like to make a few remarks as to Mr Hugh M'Gregor's impressions on lungworm. I think if his finger ware to go into a horse'a mouth, or oven a sheep's, the fly would not breed many worms. I quite agree with him that dirty ground and overstocking are bad for either sheep or horses. A good phepherd will never have any lungworm in his cheep. In one sidq of the question refer back to James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, aud he is at this time a century b ok. What is so much the cause of luugworm in this country at the fall of the year is the fact of the lambs taking what the Border shepherds call broaksaut, or what in reality is British oholera. This goes through them like fire, and three that do not die of it pino away and die of lungworm. Oftentimes in my neighbourhood wo had to muster tha sheep at the yards and tar them all at the noso. This prevents infection by those that are free from the complaint. — Yours, &c, A Shbphebd fbom Home.

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