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Purging. — A slight purging, when 

 sheep are first turned to grass, will 

 not injure them. But when this is 

 severe, the sheep should be housed, 

 dosed with castor oil, and fed with 

 some crusts of wheat bread. 



Thtr- fly or maggot is an insect, 

 which breeds in the skin of sheep. 

 If the animal be attacked belore 

 shearing, it becomes sickly and in- 

 di>nosed ; its wool, not yielding a 

 sufficient quantity oi yolk, atfords a 

 warm nest for the reception of the 

 eges, which are speedily hatched. 

 The maggots immediately feed on 

 the flesh of the sheep ; and if they 

 be not timely destroyed, the ver- 

 min will multiply so rapidly as to 

 destroy the animal in a short time. 

 The remedy recommended is cor- 

 rosive sublimate and turpentine 

 rubbed into the sore. Probably 

 spirits of turpentine, or tine salt, 

 would be equally efiicacious. 



Mr. Livingston, in the Trans- 

 actions of the Agricultural Society, 

 New-York, observes, that " the 

 legs of sheep are furnished with a 

 duct, terminating in the fissure of 

 the hoof; from which, when the 

 animal is in health, there is secret- 

 ed a white fluid, but when sickly, 

 ducts are stopped by the hardening 

 of the fluid. He has in some in- 

 stances found, that the sheep were 

 relieved, merely by pressing out 

 the hardened matter with the fin- 

 ger from the orifice of the duct in 

 in each foot, and thinks that it may, 

 in some cases, be proper to place 

 their feet in warm water, or to use 

 a probe or hard brush, for cleans- 

 ing this passage." 



A writer in the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Journal, Vol. JIl. p. 



351, observes, that the dysentery 

 or flux in sheep has been cured by 

 " rubbing with a cob between the 

 sheep's hoofs," 



Worms in the head of sheep, — 

 The symptoms of this complaint 

 are seen in the animals lopping 

 their ears, shaking their heads, 

 scouring, stupidity, loss of appetite. 

 These generally terminate in con- 

 sumption and death. 



Cure. — Force vinegar by a squirt- 

 gun or syringe into the head of the 

 sheep. This will produce sneez- 

 ing and convulsions in the sheep, 

 by which the worms will be dis- 

 charged. See Massachusetts Agri- 

 cidtural Repository, Vol. III. page 

 325., and Vol. IV. pages 30. 33. 

 140. 145. 190. 



In washing sheep, the use of wa- 

 ter impregnated with lime, is to be 

 avoided ; for this substance de- 

 composes the yolk of the wool ; 

 and wool often washed in calcare- 

 ous water become rough and brit- 

 tle. 



SHELLS, stony coverings, which 

 nature prepares for certain kinds 

 of animals in the sea, and by which 

 they are defended ; which are 

 therefore denominated shell fish. 



These shells are much of the 

 same nature as limestone, and are 

 one of the best kinds of manure. 

 No length of time deprives those 

 shells of their virtue, which are 

 buried deep in the earth. But shells 

 which lie on the surface of the 

 ground will gradually raoulder, and 

 become lime. 



This manure is so highly es- 

 teemed in some parts of Europe, 

 that the farmers even carry it in 

 bags upon horses to the distance 

 of several miles from the sea. 



