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then open anotlier furrow on each side of the 

 .sheep and applj as before, rubbing it well in. 

 Half an ounce is an ordinary dressing, but if the 

 ease Ls an a-gravated one, H oz. may be used. It 

 is usually the worst about the shoulders. A strong 

 decoction of tobacco, with the addition of a little 

 Kpirit-s of turpentine, is recommended by some, 

 but we have never used it, though it will proba- 

 bly be found efficacious. The ungucntum is a 

 certain cure, aud if used with ordinary care is 

 perfectly innoxious. 



The worm in the head is caused by a fly of a 

 light drab color, which deposits its eijqs in the 

 nostrils of the sheep, from July till late in the fall. 

 When the worms are hatched they begin to ascend 

 the nostrils in search of food and soon enter the 

 head where they feed on the vitals, when death 

 soon ensues, often very suddenly, though sheep 

 sometimes live several months after they have ex- 

 hibited symptoms of being attacked, but they 

 grow very poor and have a sickly appearance, of- 

 t'en snorting as if working to throw something 

 from their head. It is said that fat sheep are often 

 attacked without being injured— the worm find- 

 ing plenty of food in the nostrils, does not ascend 

 to°the head and therefore does little injury. 



Frevetitives.— Smear tar on the nostrils of the 

 sheep several times during the summer months ; 

 or, what is much easier, though perhaps not quite 

 so' effective, is to place tar beneath the salt in the 

 trough in which the sheep are salted. In licking 

 the sdt the sheep will smear their nostrils with 

 the tai, which will prevent the fly from deposit- 

 ing its eggs, and any little tur they may eat wUl 

 do no harm but rather good. 



There are a great many nmedics recommended 

 for this disease. Snuff, blown forcibly into the 

 nostrils with a quill, is very effective; but it is a 

 slow and lUsagreeable process. Tobacco smoke 

 blown up the nostrils by placing the stem of the 

 pipe high up in them, and blowing by some means 

 tlirough tlie bowl, thus forcing the smoke into the 

 cavatfes of the head. A tea-spoonful of spirits of 

 turpentine and olive oil, in equal proportions, 

 poured up each nostril, is said to be good. We 

 like the following remedy the best : Take 4 oz. of 

 Scotch snuff and pour over it a quart of boiling 

 water ; stir it well, and when cold take a syringe 

 and inject about a table-spoonful up each nostril. 

 The sheep should be placed on its back, and with 

 the head on the ground. Force the mixture as 

 much as possible into the cavities of the head, 

 keeping the point of the syringe inclined upwards 

 for this purpose, or the liquid will be apt to fall 

 into the throat. It wiU make the sheep very 



drunk, but nothing need be apprehended, even 

 though they appear in the agonies of death, as they 

 speedily recover. 



The operation should be repeated in a week or 

 ten days, so that if there are any of the worms in j 

 cavities whei-e they escaped the dres.~ing, they will ' 

 probably in that time have changed their positions 

 and the second dose will be likely to remove them. 



Mixing Ashfswith Manure. — Ploase inform me wheth- 

 er the incorporating of unlixivated bouse asiies with stable 

 manure, in a cellar under a barn,— in which b.irn horses 

 and cattle are kept winter and summer,— tlie cellar lieing 

 perfectly protected from rain or spring water, also from the 

 sun,— would be beneficial or detrimental to the value of the 

 manure if gradually mixed as the ordinary fires of a farm- 

 house would produce them? Would, or would not, the 

 alkdli set free the mnnwniat Ciiaklks liooxa.— Eliza- • 

 bethtoicn, C. W. 



Unleaclied wood ashes will in all cases decom- 

 pose salts of ammonia where there is sufficient 

 moisture present, and liberate the ammonia, which 

 escapes into the atmosphere and is lost. So that 

 when ashes or lime are mixed with fresh liquid or 

 solid excrements, the l.ictate, urate, phosphate, and 

 muriate of ammonia, which it contains will be im- 

 mediately decomposed and easily detected by the 

 strong, pungent, well known smell of hartshorn. 

 Mix a pint of fresh lye with some unleaclied ashos, 

 and see if it is not so. The reason of tliis action 

 is, that the alkalies (potash, soda, Ac.,) of the ashes, 

 have a stronger attraction for the acids with which 

 the ammonia is united, than the ammonia has ; bo 

 that the take away these acids and the ammonia 

 is lof: free and being much lighter than air it flies 

 off unless stopped by some absorbent substance. 



Corn geounb with the Cobs for Foou.— Corn is used 

 extensively in this country, in feeding to stock, cnislied and 

 ground in the cob. I have had my doubts of lliviv lieing 

 mucli nutriment in the eob after the corn becomes dry. and 

 think cut straw much better to mix with tlie clean meal. 

 I would be pleiised to have your \iews -n the siibjecl, or 

 some of your able correspondents. Sam'l Sattkrhkij). — 

 I'ulu^ki, Pa. 



We have always had our doubts of ' e ccom my 

 of grinding the cobs with the corn, for feeding 

 stock. There is little or no nourishment in the cobs, 

 and the millers generally charge as much for 

 grinding a bushel of corn in the ear as they do for 

 a bushel of shelled corn, so that instead of the 

 grinding costing only a tenth, it amounts to ono- 

 fifth of the corn ground. We think, with our 

 correspondent, that it would be better to shell the 

 corn and then mix meal with cut hay, corn-stalks, 

 or straw— it costing less to remove tlie co' -^ than 

 to grind them. It would be of great advantage to 

 most farmers to have a crushing mill of their own, 

 to be worked by hand or hoi-se power, and then 

 they could crush oats, corn, and every thing they 

 feed to hoi-ses or cattle, for a mere trifle, and would 

 find tlie advantage of such a course. 



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