214 EVERY MA^ HIS OWN FARRIER 



From this furrow, similar ones must be drawn down 

 the shoulders and thighs to the legs, -as far as they are 

 woolly ; and if the animal is much infected, two more 

 should be drawn along- each side, parallel to that on 

 the back, and one down each side, betweien the fore 

 and hind legs. , 



Immediately after being dressed, it is usual to turn 

 the sheep among other stock, without any fear of the 

 infection being communicated ; and there is scarcely 

 an instance of a sheep suffering any injury from the 

 application. In a few days the blotches dry up, the 

 itching ceases, and the animal is completely cured. 

 It is generally, however, thought proper not to delay 

 the operation beyond Michaelmas. 



The hippobosca ovina, called in Lincolnshire, Sheep- 

 fagg, an animal well known to all shepherds, which 

 lives among the wool, and is hurtful to the thriving of 

 sheep, both by the pain its bite occasions, and the 

 blood it sucks, is destroyed by this application, and the 

 wool is not at all injured. Our wool-buyers purchase 

 the fleeces on which the stain of the ointment is visible, 

 rather in preference to others, from an opinion, that the 

 use of it havijig preserved the animal from being vexed, 

 either with the scab or faggs, the wool is liable to the 

 defects of joints or knots; a fault observed to proceed 

 from every sudden stop in the thriving of the animal, 

 either from want of food. Or from disease. 



To cure the water in the heads of sheep. — Of all the 

 various operations by which this distemper may be 

 eradicated, I must, from experience, give the preference 

 to one which will, perhaps, astonish such of your 

 readers as form their opinions more from theory than 

 practice. A number of medical men have already con- 

 troverted the fact; and, with the utrnost presumption, 

 disputed my veracity to my face? after I had witnessed 



