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quence of which, the fly is apt to fix on the wool, 

 near the wounded part, and there deposit its eggs. 

 This troublesome animal may be, in a great measure, 

 destroyed by pouring a solution of powdered white 

 arsenic in boiling water, in the proportion of an 

 ounce to a gallon, cold on the back of the sheep, and 

 letting it diffuse itself down the skin on each side ; 

 in this method, however, several of the ticks escape 

 by crawling to the extremities of the filaments. It 

 will be still better to wash the lambs in the autumn, 

 whether shorn or not, in a tub of a similar mixture. 

 For this purpose, three pounds of the same arsenic, 

 pow.dered, may be dissolved in six gallons of boil- 

 ing water, and the solution mixed with forty gallons 

 of cold water. The whole being then well stirred 

 with a stick, the lambs may be plunged into it, 

 great care being taken that they do not dip their 

 heads, or taste the water. The liquor must be 

 squeezed out of their fleeces back into the vessel, in 

 order that it may not be wasted. It is scarcely 

 necessary to point out the poisonous quality of this 

 liquid, and how important it is to keep the vessel 

 locked up, and after the operations are performed, 

 to clean it well, or, rather, never to use it for any 

 other purpose ; and to throw the liquid which re- 

 mains where not the smallest quantity of it can be 

 drank by any creature whose life we value. 



49. Finding. 



This is a disease incident to lambs ; or rather is 

 the effect of a degree of purging which sometimes 

 attacks them when very young. The faeces being of 

 a gluey nature, fix the tail upon the anus, and thus 

 all passage from the bowels becomes interrupted. 

 Docking prevents this from happening. 



Inflammation sometimes attacks lambs in the 

 bladder and intestines, and proves quickly fatal. 

 When the intestines are inflamed, the disease is 



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