Livt Stock. Sheep Red-water~^Brary, fyc. 



for it, and HUTS as many as he lofes. He raifes the fkin with a (harp ftrong hooked 

 knife over the fpot affected, about the fize of a crown piece ; he then raifes nearly 

 the fame fize of the fkull-bone, letting the piece hang as by a hinge on one fide; 

 then with a quill cut flanting to a point, like a fpear, and barbed on each fide, he 

 fifties in for the bladder, and brings it out whole, putting down the bone again, 

 and covering with a plafter. 



It is fiated by the author of the Experienced Farmer/that pulling iheep violently 

 by the ears, and then cutting them off, in thefe cafes has with him effected a 

 cure. Sheep in this fituation among the South Down fheep-farmers arefaid to be 

 pateri/b.* 



The Refp or Red-water is another diforder to which fheep are expofed. It is 

 fuppofed to be induced by taking too much watery or fucculent food, as turnips, 

 rape, clover, eddifh, and fuch like rich vegetable produce. It is not peculiar to 

 iheep feeding on turnips or rape, as has been fuppofed. The ufe of common fait, 

 and frequent driving about, has been fuppofed beneficial; and it is faid that the dif 

 order may be prevented by having recourfc to dry food in the night, when the 

 iheep are feeding on thefe fucculent plants. 



The Braxy t as it is termed in Scotland, and which feems to be of the nature of 

 the gajlritis is probably the fame difeafe as the above : it is faid, to be not only the 

 moft fatal of all the difeafes of fheep but to have hitherto bafHed all the fldll and 

 art of man. Some farms are more liable to this difeafe than others, and it was 

 altogether unknown in the Highlands until they began to introduce a new breed, 

 and to leave their fiieep at all feafons in the fields. A change of grafs, efpecially 

 to clean grafs or clover forage, in the latter end of autumn, has often been tried 

 fuccefsfully. The only remedy, indeed, feems to be to try to prevent a difeafe 

 which, after infection, &quot; has in all inftances been found hitherto incurable.&quot; It 

 is found moft fatal within the region of the hoar froft, as it makes lefs havoc, and 

 is fcarcely felt in fituations which are more elevated and more remote from the 

 tracts of rivers, marines, or large bodies of frefh water. 



&quot; As an antidote again (I this diftemper the fiieep are fornetimes &quot;chafed with 

 dogs, and not allowed to remain long at once without being difturbed at the 

 .fcalbn in which danger is apprehended; for whenever a (heep flops after having 

 ibeing annoyed, he pafies water : and as the bladder is generally burfl of fuch fiieep 



-* Suffolk Report, 4 to Edition. 



