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assistant, who lays the ewe on her back and then taking her 

 hind legs he gently raises her hind parts about a foot from 

 the ground, thereby greatly facilitating ease in getting the 

 organs back into their proper places. As soon as they are 

 replaced the shepherd should take a leather band, fasten it 

 around the sheep just back of the forelegs and then take 

 another and fix it in such a position that it will reach from 

 one side of the ewe clear around her stern and fasten again 

 on the other side; a support should be provided by tying a 

 strap or cord over the hips to hold this up. This being 

 done, take a pint of water and put into it about a teaspoonful 

 of finely pulverized alum and two teaspoonfuls of sugar; 

 then thoroughly dissolve and inject with a syringe into the 

 womb. This should be repeated twice daily. The mix- 

 ture should be warm when injected. 



Scab. 



Scab is a terrible disease, one which has probably caused 

 more worry and loss to the world's flockmasters than all 

 other diseases combined. Unfortunately the disease is not 

 peculiar to any one country, but is found working its rav- 

 ages more or less in all countries where sheep are found. 

 Although legislation has been resorted to and money has 

 flowed like water from the exchequers of the various gov- 

 ernments which have seen fit to treat this disease as a serious 

 national affair, the disease is yet a long way from being one 

 which we may call of rare occurrence. Although England 

 is, comparatively, a very small country and the laws as applied 

 to scab and other contagious diseases very severe and al- 

 ways rigidly enforced, still the disease is quite common even 



