Cure for Lungworm.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1474, 7 October 1885, Page 5 (Supplement)

Cure for Lungworm.

Mr Wilson, of the Otakapo estate, informs us (Rangitikei Advocate) that a flock of several hundred hoggets, which had been troubled with lung worm, got into a young plantation of blue gums', the trees being about two feet high, and fed on the leaves of the young trees. He noticed a few days after that the sheep were quite free from the cough — the natural result of lung worms — which they had been subject to before. The sheep are now doing well. It is a well known fact that blue gums possess considerable medicinal properties, but we believe that the fact of sheep having been cured of this disease by the eating of the leaves of the blue gum had not been ascertained before. Mr Wilson says that it is his intention to prepare a decoction of the leaves of the blue e^im and give it to. the sheep affected with the disease m future instead of the usual dose of turpentine, and he js fully confident that the experiment will prove a success. We shall be somewhat anxious to know, a^ a 'number of our readers also will be, the result of Mr Wilson's experiment which he promises to give us.