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add one-quarter ounce, or one tablespoonful of tincture of catechu 



in each drench and this will make a sure cure. Give luke warm 



water to drink with dry flour dusted in it to make a sort of a thin 



gruel. 



BITES FROM DOGS WORRYING SHEEP. 



Bathe the wound off with luke warm water and soap twice 



a day each time after bathing-, then wipe dry and apply the white 



lotion and this will soon heal it up. 



SORE EYES IN SHEEP. 



Causes. — From something getting into the eye ; from an in- 

 jury to the eye ; from getting cold in the eye, or anything that will 

 cause it to be irritated. 



Symptoms. — The eye is partly closed and water runs from the 

 corner, and when you open the eye it is found to look red, 

 very sore, and inflamed, and may have a scum over it. 



Treatment.^ — Catch the sheep and examine the eye, and iJ 

 there is anything in it, remove it. To get the soreness and in- 

 flammation out of the eye, bathe twice a day with new milk or 

 warm water, and then apply the eye wash mentioned among the 

 receipts in the back of this book in and around the eye. Keep 

 this treatment up until it is all right. 



BROKEN LEGS IN LAMBS OR SHEEP. 

 Causes. — From being run over by anything on the road, or 

 from a kick or an injury of any kind that will cause a fracture of the 

 bones. Providing that the fracture or break is so bad that the 

 bones pierce through the skin, it is best to kill the sheep. If it is 

 fat, butcher it and use it for meat. But if the fracture is not so 

 bad and the sheep is young and you want to save it, set the bones 

 to their place and apply a starch bandage, which is a bandage 

 saturated in starch, and in drawing it out of the starch, draw the 

 bandage between your fingers, so as to scrape as much of the 

 starch out of the bandage as you can, for it will harden quicker 

 and better; then wrap it moderately tight around the leg over the 

 place where it is broken, being sure to have the bones set 

 straight, then have someone to hold the sheep and keep the leg 

 straight until the bandage hardens, after this the bandage will 

 ftold the leg to its place; leave the bandage on for a month or six 

 weeks. Keep the sheep as quiet as possible during treatment. 

 Watch the sheep's leg where the bandage is on for fear it would 

 make the leg sore or be on too tight ; if it should, change the 



