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For Dysentery "Administer a couple of purges of linseed 

 oil, followed by chalk and milk, as in diarrho3a, doubling 

 the dose of chalk, twenty drops of laudanum, with ginger 

 and gentian powder." 



For Colic Sometimes called Stretches: Give one-half 

 ounce Epsom salts, sixty drops of peppermint, one drachm 

 ginger. Salts alone will generally effect a cure. 



SHEEP TICK. 



This troublesome insect infests sheep of all ages, but none 

 so much as yearlings ; but it can be easily and effectually 

 eradicated. For one hundred lambs use five pounds of in- 

 ferior tobacco, or ten pounds of stems, boil it for several 

 hours ; then take two buckets full of water and one from 

 the boiled liquor, and keep adding till thirty gallons of de- 

 coction is made ; immerse the lambs, and let the liquor drain 

 off into the tub again to avoid waste. About a week after 

 shearing, the ticks will have left the ewes and fastened 

 themselves upon the lamb, which will be the proper time to 

 attend to them. The lambs must be held by the head with 

 both hands, and then dipped to the ears, using great care 

 that none of the decoction gets into the eyes or mouth. It 

 will not be necessary to dip the ewes. The tobacco decoc- 

 tion will be found excellent for slight wounds of the skin 

 and cutaneous irritations from johnswort. " Buchan's car- 

 bolic sheep dip " will do it more effectually than tobacco, 

 and is less troublesome to use. Directions are for the prep- 

 aration in the drug stores. 



MAGGOT FLY. 



Sheep in summer are subjected to extreme annoyance 

 from flies the gad-fly and several other varieties. They 

 deposit their eggs among the wool. When the eggs are 

 hatched, which is almost instantaneous, the maggot erodes 

 the skin, and soon brings the adjacent parts into a fit condi- 



