YESTERDAYS QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 38

YESTERDAYS QUERIES.

fiuiwered -by a -ialy sr.sUlSed T'tertßiory Barfton. O.ooriei snail be lejeived Of Monday aigV- to en»ui« i*ply I: tie- «iu>ac?<Hnj i»ae.l - j T. 0., Wellington. — "Prevention is better than cure." Avo'd overstocking, and drain out wet ! spots in the pasture or remove tbe young stock ! te a clean, high, dry locality. Treatment : , Place the affected animal* in a close building, : and burn a little sub-limed sulphur on a piece ; or"p-«per laid on an iron shovel until the air is j so much charged with -the fumes as tlley can j bear without couching violently. Theadminis- | trator must stay in the building with the sheep i to watch against accidents, an<l to keep tip the j application of the sulphur pinch" by pinch for j half an h- ur at a time, and this should be j repeated for several days in succession, and at | intervals of a week for several weeks so a* to ! kill the young worms (Strongyulus filaria) as ] they are batched out in broods. The diseased j sheep should not be turned out an-iongst, healthy i stock "or on to clean pasture until all txcitement J in breathing or coughing has subsided. They | filiou'd be provided with good feed and shelter, j Porter's Pass. — Unless you follow out Nature's j system of feeding calves— that is, to allow them > either to suck their dnm or hand f-=ed with milk i ; — it will probably end in disappointnips.t or failure. There 13 no use expecting a good j healthy cow'grown from a miserable stunted . calf. Some owners of stock give th<nr calves i niotb^r'a milk for one or two weeks and then j change it to skim milk with the addition of a little oil cake. Id some cases this may do very i well, but, as a general rule, if milk cannot bs j procured, it would pay better to seli the 'calves j