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houghs of the jumper or pine and hemlock, help to check the 

 disorder. 



Looseness in the larger Jambs is prevented by having chalk 

 within their reach, or if they refuse it, administer it in their 

 food. When it happens soon after birth, place it with the 

 ewe in a warm place, and feed the latter with plenty of oats or 

 other sound grain. If the milk be deficient, give the lamb 

 cow's milk scalded, or let it suck the cow. The tail is some- 

 times glued on to the buttocks while the scours continue. 

 Separate it immediately by the use of warm water, and rub 

 the parts with dry loam or clay. 



DYSENTERY is a different and frequently a fatal disease, but 

 resembles the former in its general symptoms. It is owing to 

 prolonged diarrhoea, unwholesome or meagre food, and other 

 causes. Bleeding and physic should be resorted to, after 

 which give warm, nourishing gruel. 



HOVKN. See Jwven in cattle. 



BRAXY is manifested by uneasiness, loathing food, fre- 

 quent drinking, carrying the head down, drawing the back 

 up, swollen belly, feverish symptoms, and avoidance of the 

 tlock. It appears mostly in late autumn and spring, and may 

 be induced by exposure to severe storms, plunging in water 

 when hot, and especi illy by constipation brought on by feed- 

 ing on frost-bitten, putrid or indigestible herbage. Remedies 

 are not often succesful unless promptly applied. Bleed freely, 

 and to effect this, in consequence of the stagnant state of the 

 blood, immersion in a tub of hot water may be necessary. 

 Then give two oz. Epsom salts, dissolved in warm water, 

 with a handful of common salt. If this is unsuccessful, give 

 a clyster made with a pipe-full of tobacco, boiled for a few 

 minutes in a pint of water. Administer half, and if unsuc- 

 cessful, follow with the remainder. Then bed the animal 

 in dry straw and cover with blankets, and assist the purga- 

 tives with warm gruels, followed by laxitive provender till 

 well. (Blacklock.) Thousands of sheep have died on the 

 prairies from braxy, induced by exposure and miserable 

 forage. Perfect preventive is secured by warm, dry shelters, 

 and nutritious, digestible food, 



COSTTVENESS is removed by giving two table spoonsful of 

 castor oil every 15 hours, till the difficulty is removed ; or 

 give one oz. Epsom salts. This may be assisted by an injec- 

 tion of warm, weak suds and molasses. 



STRETCHES. Sheep sometimes stretch out their noses on 

 the ground and around their sides as if in severe pain. This 



