BRONCHIAL WORMS IN HOGGETS.

Patea Mail, 16 July 1881, Page 4

BRONCHIAL WORMS IN HOGGETS.

Reginald Foster, writing to a Canterbury journal, says —At tbe farm of Mr James Guild, of Ohoka, I examined some hoggets which had apparently died from scour. I found that the lungs were in a highly diseased state, and an opening the bronchial tubes I discovered several white thread like worms, about an inch in length. I also found a considerable number of these parasites in the air passages of the lungs. With the exception of a little inflammation in the intestines, caused no doubt by the diarrhoea, from which all these hoggets had suffered ; the rest of the internal organs were perfectly healthy. Mr Guild has recently lost a considerable number of these hoggets, and there is little doubt that these worms were the cause of death. So far as I can learn, this disease though well known in England, has not as yet been noticed in New Zealand, but I think it is highly probable that it has been one of the causes of the heavy mortality in young stock, especially hoggets and calves—from which stockowners have suffered for several seasons past. The remedial treatment recommended is turpentine in doses of an ounce given in oil. A simpler and more direct remedy is to make the sheep inhale fumes of sulphur in a shed. In advanced cases where diarrhoea has set in, some medicine to act on the stomach would also be necessary.