300 BRAXY IN SHEEP. 



order to fill the vein it is pressed upon by the fingers at the 

 margin of the jaw. Braxy is one of the diseases which un- 

 questionably call for blood-letting. 



Purgatives, though slower in producing the decided effects 

 required to stop the progress of this disease, are of very great 

 value, and Epsom or Glauber's salts should be preferred, in 

 doses varying from 4 to 6 oz. Warm water injections are of 

 great service to unload the intestines. Common salt is a 

 good substitute in the absence of any other purgative. 



Prevention is truly better than cure for this disease, and 

 the difficulty in the way of ensuring it depends more on the 

 routine, which cannot be overcome, than on any other cause. 

 Shelter has long since been shown as of great service in dis- 

 tricts where frost is invariably associated with braxy; and no 

 other means can preserve well-fed and thriving animals from 

 the injurious influence of wet and cold. 



A careful study of the causes on any particular farm may 

 suggest special means of preventing the disease. Thus, in 

 some parts, a more regular system of feeding, and avoiding 

 changes from poor to rich land, will suffice to check a heavy 

 mortality, though we find that greater success attends our 

 efforts on lowland farms, where the sudden deaths by braxy 

 are evidently due to excess in the richness of grass and 

 turnips. We have always found the happiest result attend 

 the use of nitre mixed with bran and bruised linseed, in the 

 proportion of about 20 grains to each hog daily. The supply 

 of food must be checked if the deaths are numerous, and as 

 moonlight nights commence, the animals should be placed in 

 a bare field. 



On the hills the system of managing sheep is one incom- 

 patible with drugging, incompatible with effectual shelter, 

 and incompatible with altering the nature of the diet. In 

 the face of all these difficulties it is not to be wondered at if 



