596 MAiNUAL OF MODERN FARRIER iT 



INFLAMED UDDER, ETC. 



When the ewe is suckling, she is liable to inflammation, 

 as well as to hard tumours, in the udder. These are caused 

 hy obstructions in the lacteals, or milk-vessels ; and unless 

 thej are speedily removed, mortification will ensue in two or 

 three days. When tumours are discovered, the ewe should 

 be taken into the house, the wool must be cut closely off, 

 and the hard parts frequently rubbed with camphorated 

 spirit of wine and goulard water, in the proportion of three 

 parts of the former to one of the latter. Should the parts 

 not get softened by the means recommended, and suppuration 

 appear likely to follow, in that case the tumours should be 

 opened with a lancet, and the matter squeezed out, and the 

 wound carefully dressed with friar's balsam. It sometimes 

 happens that the loss of one or both teats follow this com- 

 plaint ; when this is the case, then the best way is to fatten 

 the ewe, and dispose of her, as she will never afterwards be 

 adapted for breeding from. 



CHAPTER V I. 



MANAGEMENT, FEEDING, ETC., OF SHEEP. 



SHELTER. 



The natural habit of sheep is to range at liberty, and that, 

 too, over a wide extent of country ; therefore, confine- 

 ment is ever to be avoided, except under peculiar circum- 

 stances. At the same time, all sheep-farmers must be aware 

 of the positive necessity of their being sheltered sometimes; 



