3"98 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



August and September, and does not continue above 

 eight days at a time, although those sheep affected with 

 it are hable to relapse. In former times it was a prac- 

 tice with shepherds to bury those sheep affected with 

 this disease at the door of the fold, with their feet up- 

 wards, which they believed acted as a charm to drive 

 it from the flock. 



Cure. — " It is necessary," says Mr. Stephenson, 

 " for the cure of this disease, to follow the same me- 

 thod recommended in the Red Water. An ounce 

 of salts dissolved in warm water, given every morning 

 for three or four days, answers remarkably well to be- 

 gin the cure, when the last mentioned recipe, with the 

 addition of the nitre, may be continued till the disease 

 disappears. But Sir G. Mackenzie thinks, that giving 

 salts in warm water is liable to objection. The effect 

 of the medicine, he says, ' will be more powerful, and 

 more beneficial, when the solution is administered cold. 

 For washing the body, Goulard water is the best 

 application.' " 



SCAB, OR ITCH. 



Symptoms. — ^This infectious, troublesome, destruc- 

 tive disease, is well known. A sheep is never 

 even slightly affected but it proceeds to scratch itself, 

 and rub its sides and buttocks against every thing it 

 meets. 



As soon as the disease is discovered, the whole 

 flock among which the scabbed animal has been pas- 

 turing, should be carefully examined, and every one 



