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Article XXXIX. 



On the Scab in Sheep > and fome approved Re- 

 medies recommended. 



[By a Gentlemen Farmer near Norwich.] 



Gentlemen, 



AS the difeafe called the fcab in fheep is very 

 often fatal, and occafions great lofs to the 

 farmer, I beg leave to trouble you with a few 

 remarks thereon; and alfo to mention fome of 

 the belt remedies yet difcovered among our fheep 

 breeders. 



This difeafe is generally found mod prevalent 

 where the lands on which fheep are kept are wet- 

 ted, or in the mod rainy feafons. 



In the ifle of Ely fome years fince mod of their 

 flocks were difeafed, and great numbers died. 

 But I am of opinion, that this diforder is not al- 

 ways the effect cither of moid air and food, or of 

 lying on wet ground. It is doubtlefs often oc- 

 cafioned by the blood and juices of the animal 

 being in an impure date; to which, however, an 

 excefs of moidure and rank food may very much 

 contribute. 



Many 



