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camphor, i oz. Spanish brown, and i gill spirits of turpentine. 

 A small quantity of this applied to the sore, will never fail. 

 Immediately after shearing, scab may readily be cured by 

 immersing the sheep, (excepting the head,) in a strong decoc- 

 tion of tobacco liquor, adding a gill of spirits of turpentine 

 for the first, and making a slight addition of fresh liquid for 

 each sheep immersed, enough to keep up the strength of the 

 tobacco and turpentine, and taking care to rub the affected 

 part thoroughly. For lambs, this liquor should be diluted, but 

 yet left strong enough to kill ticks in one or two minutes, which 

 may be ascertained by experiment. For killing ticks this 

 last is a good remedy. After dipping the sheep or lambs, the 

 liquor should be pressed out from the wool, upon an inclined 

 plane, so arranged as again to run into the vessel. Scab is 

 also removed by using a composition of one pound plug tobacco 

 to three gallons water, with lime-water and oil of vitriol added 

 or a decoction of hellebore with vinegar, sulphur and spirits 

 of turpentine. (H. D. Grove.) Scab is propagated more by 

 using the same rubbing posts, than by contact with each other. 

 tSheep in low condition are more subject to it than others. 



Ticks and lice sometimes infest sheep. Good feeding arid 

 shelter is a partial preventive, but when they have made their 

 lodgement, . they mnst be dipped in a decoction of tobacco 

 water. The most effectual time for their destruction, is a few 

 days after shearing, when they will have left the naked bodies 

 of the old ewes to hide in the fleeces of the lambs. The dip- 

 ping in tobacco water is an effectiull remedy. 



PELT-ROT will be recognized as one of the staple diseases 

 of our native slieep, described on page 322. The wool in 

 this case falls orlj leaving the sheep partially or almost wholly 

 naked ; but it is not accompanied with soreness or apparent 

 disease. The animal must be provided with a warm stall and 

 generous feed, and the naked skin should be anointed with 

 tar and grease. The preventive is good keeping and shelter. 



STAGGERS OR STURDY, AND WATER IN THE HEAD, some- 

 times affect sheep, but more especially lambs under a year 

 old. The first is caused by the hydatid. It is considered 

 as an almost incurable disorder, but is sometimes removed by 

 trepanning. Chancellor Livingston carefully supplied two 

 thus attacked, with food for three months, when nature 

 effected a cure. Removal to diy lands and purging, is a good 

 precaution when they are first taken. An English lad lately 

 cured one which had been given up, by boring with a gimblet 

 into the soft place on the head, when the water rushed out 



