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The disease will require prompt attention, and the applica- 

 tions must be repeated while there are indications of it remain- 

 ing. It has been found beneficial to spread the stables where 

 the diseased sheep stand with newly-slacked lime. If the dis- 

 ease is prevalent among a flock of fatting sheep, all hope of, 

 their thrift during its continuance must be given up. If it pre- 

 vails extensively among store-sheep, it will be expedient, as 

 soon as practicable in some honest way, to get rid of the flock ; 

 and caution should be had not to place a new flock in a pasture 

 from which a diseased flock have been recently removed. Let 

 at least one winter intervene. 



Sheep sufl"er likewise not unfrequently from the scab. For 

 this the following remedies have been given to me by expe- 

 rienced shepherds. 



1. Take 28 lbs. of leaf or 50 lbs. of stem tobacco, and put 

 them into five pails of water ; with two or three junk bottles 

 of spirits of turpentine. Wash with this once in three days for 

 a fortnight, if necessary. When the skin becomes clear, the 

 cure is effected. 



2. Take 5 lbs. of hogs' lard ; one oz. of corrosive sublimate 

 and some sulphur. Let these articles be well mixed. This is 

 a good application when the wool is short. 



3. Take roots of the weed hemlock, [cicuta ;) make with 

 them a strong decoction ; or use the tops in the same way if 

 the roots cannot be found ; wash the sheep well with it. 



A very good farmer in Conway has found one quart of sul- 

 phur mixed with four quarts of salt an excellent remedy for the 

 scab, and generally beneficial to the health of the sheep. It 

 is left in their troughs to be eaten at their pleasure. Another 

 farmer in the same town speaks highly of its efiicacy. It is 

 said to be much used in the sheep districts in Vermont. 



For snufiies, rub the nose of the sheep with tar. 



It is not within my province to go fully into the subject of 

 the keeping of sheep, but to record only such facts and sug- 

 gestions of a practical character as I have gleaned from the 

 habits of farmers in the course of my survey, and as appear to 



