168 AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS. 



HovEN, or SWOLLEN. It has been affirmed that a sinali 

 quantity of ley, made either of wood ashes, or pot or pearl ash- 

 es, turned down the throat of a sheep that is hoven or swollen, 

 by eating too much green or succulent food, will give immedi- 

 ate relief. 



Purging. When sheep are first turned to grass, a slight 

 purging will not hurt them. But when this is severe the sheep 

 should be housed, dosed with castor oil, and fed with some 

 crusts of wheat bread. 



The fly or maggot, is an insect which breeds in the skin 

 of sheep. If the animal is a tacked before shearing it be- 

 comes sickly and indisposed ; its wool not yielding a sufficient 

 quantity of yolk,offers a warm nest for the reception of the 

 eggs, which are speedily hatched. The maggots immediate- 

 ly feed on the flesh of the sheep; and if they be not timely 

 destroyed, the vermin will multiply so rapidly as to destroy 

 the animal in a short time. The remedy recommended is cor- 

 rosive sublimate and turpentine rubbed into the sore. Proba- 

 bly spirits of turpentine, or fine salt, would be equally effica- 

 cious. 



Mr. Livingston, in the transactions of the agricultural so- 

 ciety, New-York, observes that the legs of sheep are furnished 

 with a duet, terminating in the fissure of the hoof; from v.hich 

 when the animal is in health there is secreted a white fluid, 

 but when sickly the duets are stopped by the hardening of the 

 fluid ; and that he has in some instances found the sheep re- 

 lieved, merely by pressing out the hardened matter with the 

 finger from the orifice of the duct in each foot, and thinks that 

 it may in some cases be proper to place their feet in w'arm wa- 

 ter, or to use a probe or hard brusii for cleansing this pas- 

 sage." 



A writer in the Massachusetts Agricultural Journal, vol. 3, 

 p. 351, observes that "the dysentaiy or flux in sheep has been 

 c ured by rubbing with a co^ between the sheep's hoofs." 



Worms tn the head of sheep. — The syratoms of this 

 complaint are seen in the animals lopping their ears, shaking 

 their heads, scouring, stupidity, loss of appetite. These gen- 

 erally ter minate in consumption and death. 



Remedy . — Force vineger, by a syringe into the head of the 

 sheep. This will produce sneezing, and convulsions in the' 

 sheep, by which the worms will be discharged." 



