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venting^ disorders. Sheep should not be kept in close 

 sheds, or hovels, except when the lambs are young, and 

 the vveatiier then cold, and wet; cold nevcj- injures grown 

 Sheep, or young Lambs ; wet long continued, kills them- 

 A change is necessaiy, both of pasture and local situa- 

 tion. They never thrive if kept more than six year?; 

 npon the same farm. Those from hilly countries, wili 

 fatten fast, upon low lands, but must be immediately sold 

 to the butchers. Sheep, Deer and Goats, can feed with 

 safety, on many things fatal to other animals ; but both 

 the latter have more .•sagacity in the selection than the 

 former. The most common diseases are the scower, and 

 the rot. The (m) runing at the nose, [ take to be a com- 

 panion, or consequence of the I'ot, which (n) in its first sta^ 

 ges, appears to be a species of catarrh. Wet weather 

 long protracted, too luxuriant herbage , wet or sour pas- 

 tures, or too much water, will produce the scower, x^hich 

 is a forerunner of other diseases. The putrid air of con- 

 iined stables, or folds, v\ here too man}' are kept together, 

 is one cause of the rot. 1 do not believe that when the 

 taint is once fixed, the animal is ever perfectly cured. — 

 Removal to salt meadows, has cheeked this disorder, in 

 its first stage, tarring the troughs, in which they drink, 

 and stinting the quantity of water are also beneficial. — 

 The free use of pitch pine brandies and buds, is also an 

 efiicacious preventive and remedy. Sulphur is bene. 

 ficial in the first stages of the rot. A decoction of Helle- 

 bore, or tobacco and tar ointment, are serviceable in the 

 .first attacks of the scab, a disorder common to Sheep, in 

 all countries, and which in its commencement, is a cuta^ 

 neous disease. 



There is an infinite variety in the countenances of 

 Sheep. Examine the largest (lock, and you will find no 

 two faces alike. The changes appearing in the counte- 

 nances and e^es indicate disease, or recovery; but I 

 know not what arc the symptomatic appearances pecu- 

 liar to each. (o). 



" When fleeces begin to fall ofit* in spring, owing to re- 

 laxation/ from too much warmth^ or weakness, giving 



