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the weather was fevere, they, to get away from it, 
got fo clofe together, that they were ftifled; whereas 
the weaker, not being able to thruft in fo clofe, 
efcaped with their lives, as very few indeed of the 
Jatter, in comparifon to the former, died. 
It has been a cuftom, time immemorial, among 
the farmers on the South-Downs, after fhearing, for 
a few days, if the weather appear to be inclement, 
windy, or wet, to houfe their flocks in their barns, as 
they are generally empty at that feafon: and this, or 
fome fuch precaution, feems to be called for, by ex- 
perience of the dangerous effects of cold on a newly- 
fhorn fheep. 
The /afk, or fcouring. Query. If from too-moift 
food, indigeftion, griping, or what other caufe? If 
not ftopped, it generally proves mortal. 
Some few Remedies ufed with fuccefs. 
Tar, for a cut in fhearing, and to anoint the place 
where the flies have blown. 
Daffy’s Elixir has been given for diforders in the 
bowels, as well of /beep as of horfes and oxen; to 
be worked off with plenty of water-gruel, as that 
tends to preferve the bowels eafy. ; 
A fheet of writing paper, boiled in one quart of 
milk to a pint, the whole to be given to a cow at once 
for the afk; at twice to a sheep; to be repeated as 
the cafe may require. 
Buglofs. Ointment made from the roots of bu- 
glofs, when in the fulnefs of bloffom, pounded and 
boiled 
