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the bed well with lukewarm water and place a sheet or clean 

 bag under it to keep it up and also keep it clean. Have a man 

 on each side to hold the hind end of the sheep up. When 

 your hands are well oiled, start to turn it in, commencing at 

 the vulva and continue to turn it in until it is all in the pas- 

 sage, then shove the womb back to its natural place with 

 your hand before leaving it. With a needle and twine used 

 for sewing wounds, put two or three stitches in the vulva, 

 leaving only sufficient opening through which the water may 

 pass. Remove the stitches in a day or so when the straining 

 has ceased. After the womb has been returned there is likely 

 to be some straining. To relieve this give : 



Epsom Salts l A pound. 



Laudanum J4 ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 



Fleming's Tincture of Aconite 2 drops. 



Mix thoroughly and give as a drench. After this, give a 

 warm bran mash, and the following drench every hour until 

 straining ceases: 



Laudanum x 4 ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre ...% ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 

 Fleming's Tincture of Aconite 2 drops. 



Mix in half a pint of water and give as a drench. 



9. Inflammation of the Milk Bag (Garget). 



Cause's. — Catching cold after lambing, a profuse overflow 

 of milk, an injury, insufficient demand for the milk or the 

 lamb not keeping the bag sufficiently empty may give rise to 

 garget. 



Symptoms. — The bag becomes largely swollen with milk 

 — is hard, hot, tender and inflamed. The ewe seems feverish 

 and is in pain. If you try to milk her at this stage, only a 

 watery, curdy milk comes out. If not checked now, the in- 

 flamed part of the bag will commence to fester and form mat- 

 ter, and will either break or have to be lanced. Sometimes, 

 instead of the bag festering, it becomes mortified, and if not 

 checked, the mortification goes up into the belly and kills 

 the ewe. 



Treatment. — It is always best, if a ewe loses a lamb, or 

 when the lambs are being weaned, to watch the bag and milk 

 her out once in a while until she goes dry. When the bag is 

 swollen and inflamed, milk her out once or twice, bathe her 

 bag three times a day with warm water and vinegar, and in a 

 day or so she will come all right. When neglected until it 



