S38- FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 



The scab. Cured by juniper-oil, when the weather is 

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



Basquilla; occasioned by too much blood. Cured by 

 bleeding in the dug, as before mentioned. 



Moderez (lethargy) occasioned by pustules formed on 

 the bruin. The Sheep keep turning, while feeding, to the 

 side where the pustules are formed. Few recover, and the 

 disease is infectious. Some get well in part by pricking the 

 part affected with an awl ; but those attacked with this dis- 

 order should be killed off. 



Smalljiox; being blisters, which first appear on the flankS| 

 and spread over the body. It is produced by drinking 

 stagnant waters. The diseased Sheep are to be kept apart 

 from the rest, as the disease is infectious, and when the 

 blisters break anoint them with sweeioil. 



Lastly, Lameness. This appears to be the same as is de- 

 scribed by Mr. Livings ton.- 



He observes that ' the legs of Sheep are furnished with 

 a duct which terminates in the fissure of the hoof; from 

 which, when the animal is in health, there is secreted a 

 white fluid ; but when sickly these ducts are sloped by the 

 hardness of the fluid ' 



He adds, that he had, in some instances, found the 

 Sheep relieved by pressing out the hardened matter with 

 the finger from the orifice of the duct in each foot. Per- 

 haps it may in some cases be proper to place their feet in 

 warm water? or to use a probe,, or hard brush, for cleansing 

 thia passage.' 



He concludes by observing, that probably the ill-health of 

 Sheep, in wet or muddy pastures, may in some measure be 

 ascribed to the necessity of keeping these ducts free and 

 open. 



The Compilers of * The Complete Grazier/ however, 

 mention another kind of lameness in Sheep, which is called 

 the foot-half. It is caused by an insect resembling a worm, 

 two or three inches long, which is found to have entered 

 between the close of the claws of the Sheep, and worked 

 its passage upward between the external membranes and 

 the bone. To extract the worm, move the claws backwards 

 and forwards in contrary directions, and it will work its way 

 out. In Greatbritain, this disorder is chiefly confined to 

 wet pastures. 



fie Castro also mentions diseases to which the Merino 

 L;'n)bs are subject, in Spain, when brought forth in wet 

 '' such as the lohannillo (gangrene) which has no 

 he amarilla (jaundice) which is infectious; the 

 and bones of the L^nib turning of the color of yellow 

 wax : For this a smajl^quantity of the flnx leaved daphne 

 guidium is good, The co-viro, a lameness of the feeu 



