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SHEEP— DISEASES AND REMEDIES. 



of the hoof from its former paring 

 with the knife, or in the rough and un- 

 natural hardness of the hoof which the 

 application of all foot rot medicines 

 (caustics) leave. A new man should 

 never buy a flock which indicates that it 

 has been treated for scab or foot rot. 

 They may be cured, but he is not the 

 man to risk it. Nothing sickens new 

 men like having to go through a siege of 

 doctoring a diseased flock. 



Buy only good sheep, if you can't buy 

 so many of them. Of all the profitless 

 stock, a hard lot of sheep is the most so. 

 One thing we forgot to mention above, 

 and that is, in buying sheep in the sum- 

 mer or fell, to try and learn whether they 



have had bucks running with them. One 

 of my neighbors bought a flock in such 

 condition last fall, and has had two hun- 

 dred or more lambs dropped this winter, 

 not one of which is alive at this time. In 

 addition to the loss of the lambs, many 

 of the ewes have died from weakness in 

 lambing, and of those which live through 

 many of them will shed their wool, and 

 all shear but light fleeces. Don't buy 

 ewes out of a flock driven in from a distance 

 which have had bucks driven with them, 

 even if they have been aproned. Aprons 

 will slip sometimes, and, as we have 

 heard, "accidents will happen in the best 

 of families." 

 SHEEP, Fits.— See Sheep, Epilepsy. 



