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Cure. — Full feeding, warm keeping, and anointing 

 the hard part of the skin with tar, oil and butter, mixed 

 together. 



Tick. — As these occasion a constant scratching, they 

 pro\% injurious to the wool, and they sometimes occa- 

 sion the death of lean sheep. 



Cure. — Blow tobacco- smoke into ev^ry part of the 

 fleece, by means of a bellows. I'he smoke is taken 

 into the bellows, the wool is opened, the smoke is 

 blown in, and the wool is then closed. This is re- 

 peated over every part of the body, at proper distances. 

 It is quickly performed. 



Staggers. — A disease of the brain, which renders 

 them unable to stand. 



Cure. — Dissolve assafoetida in warm water, and put 

 half a spoonful in each ear of the sheep. It is a speedy 

 remedy. 



Colds. — The principal indication of this is the dis- 

 charge of mucus from the nose. Good feeding, to- 

 gether with some pine boughs given them occasionally, 

 will cure this complaint. If pine boughs cannot be 

 had, spread some tar over a board, and over this spread 

 some salt, which will induce the sheep to lick up all 

 the tar, and this will effect a cure. Whenever this, 

 however, becomes habitual with old sheep, they should 

 be killed oft'. 



Purging. — If any are severely afflicted in the spring 

 with this, which sometimes happens after being turned 

 out to grass, house them, give them a dose of castor- 

 oil, feed them with dry food, and give them some crusts 

 of wheat bread. A slight purging will not hurt them. 



Hove. — Sheep, like neat-cattle, when put into clover- 

 pastures, sometimes have their stomachs distended by 

 wind, so that they will die if not relieved. The swell- 

 ing rises highest on the left side, and in this place let the 

 knife be inserted, or other means used to the same effect. 



