There are a few advantages to worming sheep and then spraying them for parasites and flies, as we did this morning. Namely the three that sprang most readily to my mind as the permethrin and wormer sloshed about a little too freely on our arms and legs was this, that any personal tapeworm, lice, or horn fly issues that we may have been enduring had now been eliminated.

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Reading this weekend: Wolf of the Deep (S. Fox), a terrific read about the captain of the CSS Alabama.