Of Difeafes in Sheep, 1 5 



and.unaerihcTail: Tnen Itamp Wormwood and Rue with Bay-Salt, and it 

 will Cure them, being applied to the fore places. 



CHAP. IX. For the Itch or Scab in Sheep. 



WAfh the Scabby places of your Sheep with the Root of Camelion 

 Noir and the Herb Bears-Foot boil'd both together in Watery it 

 muft bs warm ; and without any other thing they will be cured. 



CHAP. X. Herbs hurtful for Sheep. 



SEveral Herbs are very noxious to Sheep, I (hall inftance the principal ^ 

 Firfi", Speart-wort, which ufually grows in moift places, is thick and 

 hard of digellion. Knot-grafs and Mill-dew'd Grafs are not good, Black 

 Ellebore is very hurtful for Sheep or other Cattle, if they eat any ftore of 

 it. Twopenny Grafs, and dead Grals or rotten Fog, which is in low 

 Commons and Meadows, is very deftru£live to them, and will breed the 

 Rot in them^ Hemlock and Muflirooms are naught for Sheep. Laftly, 

 if Sht^ep eat Oak-leaves when they are green, it is bad for them , elpecialiy 

 for young Lambs, for it will certainly kill them. 



C H A P. XI. Jgahijl the GjU hi Sheep. 



SHeep will ftand fhrinking their fore-feet together, if they are troubled 

 ■ wi[h the Hewing of rhe Gal] •, you mult let him blood under the Tail, 

 then give him to drink half a Spoonful of good Vinegar, and as much Aqua 

 Vlix mixed togei her, and he will be better. 



C H A P, XII. Jhe Tmnhtg DIfeafe in Sheep, 



SHeep ofentimes hold their Head on one fide, by reafon of this Turning 

 Sickntfs. Some Shepherds give Advice, that if the Sheep hold their 

 Heads on the right hde, ye muft cut off the Horn on the left fide, for un- 

 der the Horn their lies a Worm which will be killed if you artoint it with 

 Tar, and they will be well again. 



C H ^ P. XIII. Some DireSlojis to hrcveafe Milk in Em. 



THere is nothing better than altering of Pafture for the increafing of 

 Milk in Ews; pat th.m to gr^zs f:>metimes in Valleys, fomerimes on 

 Hills, let them feed longeft upon fhort Grafs, if it be fweet, for there they 

 eat mott heiuilv -, fof touching givinj; them Fitches,Dill, and Annifeeds, 

 and fuch like, Milk will fpring much better by, Change of Palture. 



e H A P. XlV. For loofe Teeth. 



IF your Sh>-ep's Teeth be loofe, lex him blood in his Gumsi a-R^ lender 

 the Tail, and afterwards rub his Teeth with Earth, Salt and Sage, and 

 Ui^y will fallen, " CHAP.- 



