222 EVEIIY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER 



Pining. — When the excrement of the lamb becomes 

 so glutinous as to fasten the tail to the vent, it must be 

 washed clean, and have the buttocks and tail rubbed 

 with dry clay, which will prevent any further adhesion. 



•Sometimes it may be found necessary to bleed S|^oep, 

 to allay some inflammatory disorder. 



Daubenton recommends bleeding in the lower part 

 of the cheek, at the spot where the root of the fourth 

 tootli is placed, which is the thickest part of the cheek, 

 and is marked on the external surface of the bone of 

 the upper jaw, by a tubercle sufficiently prominent to 

 be very sensible to the finger, when the skin of the 

 cheek is touched. This tubercle is a certain index to 

 the angular vein which is placed below. 



The method of bleeding, after finding the vein, it is 

 hardly necessary to describe. 



Philip de Castro, a Spanish sheplierd, has written a 

 short treatise on the diseases of sheep in Spain, and of 

 their management there ; and he recommends that 

 bleeding should be performed in a vein in the fore part 

 of the dug. The essay of this shepherd is believed to 

 be worthy of some further notice. 



He says the merino sheep of Spain are subject to the 

 following diseases : 



The Scab. — Cured by juniper oil, when the weather 

 is wet, or by a decoction of tobacco in dry weather.. 



BasguiUa. — Occasioned by too much blood. Cured 

 by bleeding in the dug, as before mentioned. 



Moderez. — (Lethargy) occasioned by pustules formed 

 on the brain. The sheep keep turning, while feeding, 

 to the si;le where the pustules are formed. Few re- 

 cover, and the disease is infectious. Some get well in 

 part by pricking the part affected with an awl; but 

 those attacked with this disorder should be killed off. 



Smallpox. — Being blisters, which first appear on the 

 flanks, and spread over the body. It is produced by 



