LUNG-WORM.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 7

LUNG-WORM.

The following recently appeared in the Rangitikei Advocate :—: — A short time since we mentioned that Mr Robert Wilson, of Heiaton Park, had fouhd blue-gum a sure 1 specific for the cure of that disastrous disease in young 'sheep I—lung-worm;1 — lung-worm; We 1 arc now, by Mr It. Wilson's courtesy, enhbled to publish a dopy of a letter sent by him in reply td aft inquiry fronl Mr •J. G. Wiladn, M.H.R., giving fuller particulars on the 1 subject. It will doubtless prdve very interesting to many of our readers: The letter is as follows: — " De 1 ar Sify — In reply to your enquiry of the 19th October, I may state the following are particulars of ihe cure j made in my hoggets troubled with lung worm : — Last March I purchased 900 hoggets at auction. After I had had them a few weeks they became very bad with a cough, indicating the presence df lung-Worm ; in facts; I thought I should lose the greater portion of them as it was not convenient at the tirrie to treat them ftir it. I instiucted iriy shepherd to put them, in a paddock where they had access to a blue-gum plantation, about 1 6 acres in extent} the trees being about two fedt high. About ten days j after thdy were brought into the" yards for treatment; when, much td my sur- | prise and delight, I found the cougli almost entirely gone, there not being more then two or three troubled with it and not very bad. I was amazed at the change and I d,il riot know how to | account for it until a few days after I went to see whether the gums had been damaged, and found all the leaves eaten off. On my Greeti Bank ftjirm, wh&re the experiment wds tried, I have not Idst a single 1 hdgge't from lung- work, and I believe A dee'dctiori wade from leaves of the blue-giini would jirove a certain cur© for it> A sliort tiriie ago there' \va,s. A very interesting letter in the Otago "yv'itness; written by * arid whlcli you 1 triay hot Have seen j he gild scm'ewha't in these words—' That it was useless to' dose sHeep with the uSUaI treattiiorit fdr lung worm; lis an acid or oleo-re'sindtts' ctajle vvhich would quickly kill a sheep/, Vrdu'ld riot effect tho lung-worm. ' Shepherd' recdnimerfded keeping upi the constitdtidn of the animal by feeding liberally with turnips and rape,' as the best remedy for lungwonri. The latter Has been my experience, but it H riot always convenient td grow the above food, v arid besides' crops often fail, wheteas 1 .sh^rild ihe blue-gum treatment prove effectual; it is within tbie' rettth elf everyoW