336 FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 



their teeth, or by loose locks of wool rising on their backs 

 and thouldtrs. 



The She* p infected is first to be taken from the flock and 

 put r>y useli ; and then the part aiVected is to have the wool 

 taU- r. off, as far as the skin feels hard to the friger, and 

 \v.r.h?d with soapsuds and rubed hard whh a s'aoebrush, so 

 as io cleanse and break the scab. Then anoint it with a 

 decocaon of tobacco water, mixed with the third of lie of 

 wo-rci ashes, as much grease as this lie will dissolve, a 

 smili quantity of tar, and about an eighth of the whole mass 

 of tl. spirits of turpentine, This ointment is to be rubed 

 on the part ;ffcted, and for some little distance round it, 

 at three different times, with an interval of three days af- 

 ter each washing. With timely precautions this will al- 

 ways be found sufficient. 



In very inveterate cases, Sir Josefih Banks says mercurial 

 ointment must be resorted to; with gie^t care, however, 

 keeping '.he Sheep dry; the wool to be opened, and a streak 

 to be n*i:de down the back, and thence down the ribs and 

 thighs Finewooled Sheep, and Rams which have been much 

 exhausted by covering, are most subject to this disorder, and 

 in finewooled flocks it is most diffi ult to cure. It is said 

 thai it may be communicated, even by a Sheep lying on the 

 same grou:-d on which a scabby one had shortly before lain, 

 or lv robing against the same post. 



Prit-rot In this disease the wool falls off, but the skin 

 dots ifvbj Become sore, but is merely covered with a white 

 cru^: Cure. Full feeding, warm keeping, and anointing 

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

 U)i<< -her. 



Tick As these occasion a constant scratching, they 

 prove injurious to the wool, and they sometimes occasion 

 the df-.a'h of lean Sheep. Cure. Blow tobacco-smoke into 

 every part of the fleece, by means of a bellows. The smoke 

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

 blown in, and the wool is then closed. This is repeated 

 over every part of the body, at proper distances. It is 

 quickly performed. 



See also INSECTS, for another method of killing Ticks. 



Dogs These often prove more injurious to Sheep than 

 all their other maladies put together. Cure. A fi>*e, soy 

 of a hundred dollars, upon every Man that keeps a Female 

 of these animals above eight inches high ; or a yearly tax, 

 say, of twenty dollars, 1 iid upon the Owners. Extirpate the 

 Females of this race, and the whole breed would soon disap- 

 pear. The Legislature may easily enforce a law of this 

 kind, without danger of its being unfiofiular y which it is said 

 \vtfuld be the fate of a law taxing the whole race of Dogs. 



