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ABOUT LAMBS.

WHITE SCOUR. In the course of a recent meeting of •the Kingscoto Farmers' Club, Mr llc-L diorrow remarked that* i; there was scarcely a farmer to be found anywhere, wbo ■kept slieep nnd bred lambs, wno had not now and again to deal -with that fearful •di e-iso eonunon'y called scour, but-.which •w s 'c.-iily a low fevt-r. It was a most diffi nit liiing to deal with when they had ir, and the great thing was to know how •to prevent it. Of course the great thing wiih nil young sto**k is to keep them •gong on. and never to I*t them luwc

a • h"< k, if t ey could possibly avoid it;; .ai d if this couid I c done they might fairly expect the animals to escape these fearful diseases, lint, after all, tbe most • direful of men amongst the best practical farmers did not IAII in with these things, lie did not profess to he more careful •or more practical than his neighbours, ■but he had dropped in with this scour or dow fever amongst his lambs and be could not account for it in nny. way. It certainly was not brought about by overfeeding, or l>y feeding them too long on the same ground. He changed tbein about, and did all he -could.; ytft all at once it appeared, and out of 114 lambs he soon lost 42," In all such cases it •.would be beneficial to change the food .as soon as possible, even though it may mot seem to be at fault.

According to Tellor "white scour" in dambs is attended with much colic, loss of appetite, and rapidly increasing ■weakness. In all cases this arises from non-digestion of the ewe's milk Either tho lamb hns a weak stomach, or overloads it, or the milk is not of a healthy character. Highly fed ewes are specially liable to have this disease in their lambs, 'their milk probably I eing too rich. In addition to a change of food, he re commends an alkaline laxative, to clear; Abe bowels. For this purpose mix together ■half an ounce of bicarbonate of potash, .and half an ounce of calcined magnesia. ■Divide into eight powders, nnd give one i four times a day until the character of the ; ■ evacuation changes. If the weakness ho great, ho recommends to beat up two eggs, two ounces of whisky, and one dram of essence of ginger, in a pint of oatmeal gruel made with milk, and ; to give a few spoonfuls of it every three liours. [ 'DIAMKEA IN LAMBS. I If it is ordinary diarrhoea which' the ij lamb is suffering from, or simple relaxation of the bowels, produced by fresh grass, ,a change of pasture, and an allowance of ■good linseed cuke, or other dry food, will probably be sufficiently restorative. If] mot, take of prepared chalk one ounce, powdered ginger two drains, powdered •opium half a drain, peppermint water half .pint*; and give two tablespoonfuls of tho •cordial twice a day. ; UNDIGESTED MILK KILLING TIIE LAMBS. , I have it on the authority of Mr Drew, that farmers in Hampshire often loose a many lambs in the spring of tbe year from an accumulation of curdle.l ■milk on the stomach. The}' always find, he says, when this appears, that they derive more benefit by shifting the ewes and lambs, and not keeping them hardly so well, than by having the veterinary surgeon. Mr Paine, near Micheldever, is referred to as having lost nearly all his lambs one year from this unwholesome and curdling milk.; and his neighbors let him have more lambs, but the milk killed i all that were put lo the ewes. I have bad no experience of this disorder among Jambs myself, although I have examined lambs tluit had died of it. The facts brought forward appear-to me wioonclnsive as to whether it is poverty or richness of milk that kills the lambs. It may be partly both. A sudden change from a bare or a poor pasture to a very luxuriant .or a rich pasture, is apt to produce it. The lamb in the first instance is insufficiently ■nourished, and tho effect of the sudden

change of pasture is to produce an increase in the flow of milk which proves too much for the lamb in its lowered condition. The probability ia that in nine cases out of ten the evil is due not so much to unwholesome milk as to a weak digestion in the young lamb, which ultimately dies of distension of the stomach. I may be told that a sucking animal is not likely to take more milk than it can digest. Experience shows, however, that many calves as well as lambs die from | this ca>"se every year. Many calves are killed by over-feeding them during tbe first few clays of their life, and particularly when they are gorged with skim-milk. The digestive organs of the young animal are not prepared for this ad at once ; and the lamb or calf succumbs. It is much the same when an older lamb, with a weakened constitution and digestion, is allowed a sudden increase in the quantity of anilk. Were -the lami) able to digest this .milk, the effect of the chWged -keep would probably show itself in the form of low fever or S'-our. The cause and remedy of both are indicated in the practice of those Hampshire farmers who, in all such cases, .find the benefit of shifting the ewes and lambs. An alkaline powder of the kind recommended fov " white scour," which is only a more acute ifcrm of this disorder, should also be admin - istered. I

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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 638, 25 August 1882, Page 3

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ABOUT LAMBS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 638, 25 August 1882, Page 3

ABOUT LAMBS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 638, 25 August 1882, Page 3

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