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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13943, 1 July 1909, Page 6

" punch-hole " will..:result, - but let it hang free,., when it wiil arain out with the noxious Jiuiiiours, 1 leaving *llO trace unless it 'inay £>e a very tiny onnce. •Tiie .seton..-reduces 1 . 'tee. swelling very f/uicklv and iii most cases prevents tUe wool and. ears irom tailing oti... ' I have: only used this -remedy.when the disease lias actually appeared, but I am almost sure it the operation were performed previous to tiie lambs going 011 to the rape, there would be no cases of tliis ailment or only slight ones, and consequently, no loss of ews, which would be a great gain- in the case'.of- pedigree sheep and rams. -It is with no feelings. of self-suffi-ciency or from an assumption of superior knowledge, that I .write about this remedy, liut I always thought • this simple and- effective operation was- very generally used until a . well-known - and very popular Christchurch Meat Company's fat sheep buyer assured me that in all his experience,; and he puts thousands of sheep ■ through his hands, annually, he had never seen or heard of the cure till he saw the twine in our lamb's ears. A few acres of mustard sown a fortnight after the rape is also a great preventive, but we only use the "seton" and "the proof of the pudding is in the preeing o't." Our death- rate on rape is annually only about 2 per thousand. —I am, etc., ; E. J. DUNCAN. " Chastleton,". Fairlie.