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Flour of sulphur, one pound. 



Venice turpentine, four ounces. . 



Rancid lard, two pounds. 



Mercurial ointment, four ounces. 



Rubbed well together. 



Great care should be observed in rubbing the ointment 

 into the body of the sheep. The wool should be parted 

 by the hand, and as thorough an application be made as 

 possible. Continue this treatment till the sheep ceases 

 its violent scratching ; using the ointment every other 

 day. There is not the slightest danger in this treatment, 

 and it is usually efficacious. 



PURGING. 



TREATMENT. In slight cases, suet boiled in milk is suffi- 

 cient. If very bad, give once or twice a day the following : 



Prepared chalk, quarter of an ounce. 



Powdered ginger, half a drachm. 



Powdered opium, two grains j in warm gruel, till the 

 disease gives way. 



GRUBS. 



The grub in the head of a sheep, is the larva or mag- 

 got of a fly, which deposites its egg in the nose, generally 

 in the month of August. The egg soon hatches, and the 

 young maggot soon makes its way up into the cavities, 

 called the frontal sinuses, where it attains its growth, 

 causing constant irritation and disease, and not unfre- 

 quently death. Arrived at its growth, it falls to the earth, 

 enters it, and in a short time emerges a perfect insect or 

 fly, ready to commence the career of reproduction and 

 destruction. We formerly lost many sheep from the grub, 

 and could find no cure for them, or but very partial ones, 

 after it became evident they were diseased. Our course 



