GRUBS IN THE HEADS OF SHEEP.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1497, 9 October 1886, Page 2

GRUBS IN THE HEADS OF SHEEP.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your issue of Thursday, Sept. 30, you speak of grubs being found in the heads of sheep. This appears to me to be identical with what is termed worm in the horn or frontal sinuses, very common in England, and I have seen the same thing here several times, though not frequently. They are deposited by a fly within the ales or flaps ot the nostrils, from whence they gradually crawl up the septum nasi, which possesses less sensibility than the other parts of the nose, and directed by this unerring guide they arrive at the frontal sinus, which communicates with the bone cavity of the horn. I may slate that both polled and horned sheep are subject to this disease, and that when the worm has accomplished his worst he crawls out of his habitation, is thrown out upon the grass, and becomes a fly. In some parts the custom is to break off the horn to relieve the delirium which is sometimes occasioned.—l am, etc., P. R. Platmaw, P.S. —Since writing the above 1 have noticed Mr Pilbrow’s letter in your issue of the sth instant. I notice be has branded all breeders and butchers alike. The remedy he mentions no doubt does good at an early stage, but once the grub is located near the horn not all the sneezing in creation would remove it.