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milk, mixed with frefh warm milk, will convett 

 it to its own nature; and this again will change 

 another quantity of frefh rnilk, and fo on ad infi- 

 mtum. The juice of the leaves will kill lice in 

 fheep and other animals. The common people 

 ufe it to cure cracks or chaps in cows udders. 

 This plant is thought to occafion the difeafe called 

 the rot in fheep. But it is much more likely that 

 this difeafe is owing to a flat infed called the 

 Jluke^ [Fa/dola hepatica] which frequently adheres to 

 Hones and plants in marftiy grounds, and other 

 wet lituations ; as the fame infedts are found in the 

 liver and biliary duds of flieep infedled with the 

 rot. No cattle will feed on this plant. 



Sheep's Fefcue* 



Art excellent grafs, which flourifhes befl: in a 

 dry fandy foil. Cows, horfes, and goats, will eat 

 it, but it is the favourite food of fheep. They 

 prefer it to all other grafTes, and being very fuccu- 

 lent, it fattens them fooner than any other. The 

 Ttzr/izri, who lead a wandering life with their flocks 

 and herds, always choofe thofe fpots where this 

 grafs abounds. The fuperiority of the Spanifh, 

 and fome of the Englifh wool is probably owing 

 to the abundance of this grafs in hilly paftures 

 where fiieep are kept. It is certainly worthy par- 

 ticular cultivation by farmers. 



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