200 DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



Mr. Hogg recommends the following unguent to be rubbed over 

 every part of the animal, after shearing, with a curry brush : — train or 

 seal oil, four gallons; tar, half a gallon ; oil of turpentine, one pint. Mix. 

 Mr. John Graham, of Newbigging, perceiving the disadvantage of tar as 

 a wool-stainer, and yet desirous of smearing his sheep, used the following 

 preparation, in which the tar was omitted, yellow resin being used in 

 its stead : — butter, eighteen pounds; hogs' lard, eighteen pounds; resin, 

 twelve pounds; Gallipoli oil, one gallon. Mix. This quantity he found 

 sufficient for fifty or fifty-five sheep, and the cost of smearing each sheep 

 was about four and a half pence. He found this wool, when washed, 

 equally valuable with the white wool : and it sold for a considerably 

 higher price than the laid or tarred wool. The importance of smearing 

 or salving is undeniable. The use of a small quantity of some oleaginous 

 or greasy application immediately after shearing is now generally ac- 

 knowledged. The protection which it aftbrds to the almost denuded 

 skin — its substitution for the natural yolk, which is not in its full quan- 

 tity immediately secreted — and the softness vvhich it will impart to the 

 "wool — are circumstances w^ell deservino- attention. 



