PARASITES ON ANIMALS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 3, 23 June 1883, Page 4

PARASITES ON ANIMALS.

In order to deal effectually with the various kinds of parasites which infect stock, we should be familiar with their nature, habits, .and methods of propagation. One class of parasites pass only one portion of their lives in their host ; another feed upon the skin and suck the blood of the animals they infest, while yet another, as the internal parasite worms, live only within the flesh, muscles, and intestines. There are also paras : tes of the vegetable kingdom, known /is microscopic fungi, from whose attacks no cultivated plants are entirely exempt. The mission of these parasites seems to be to prey upon and hasten the destruction of the feeble, both of animals and plants, while they shun the vigorous and hearty. If the farmer neglects to give his stock the proper care; if scanty and innutritions food is given them, and if they arc kept in tilthy pens and dirty stables; if grooming is neglected, innumerable hordes of parasitic enemies will attack the poor brutes, which for want of strength to resist their attacks, become the natural prey for parasites both internal and external. The very immediate connection of such diseases as foot-rot, thrush, mange, &c, with a want of nutritious and sufficient food is a matter too often overlooked by the stockman, ■while he wonders why it is that his cattle and horses are so often victims of these various diseases. We wish, therefore, to call the attention of our farmerreader, especially to what may bo termed the resident theory, which assumes that these fungoid diseases and parasites may be largely, if not wholly, averted by generous feeding, proper care, and sufficient exercise of stock. With due attention to these things we strike at the source of possible disease by seeking means of prevention rather than remedies for the cure of parasitic diseases of whatever name or nature.-—-' Rural New Yorker,*

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