lo?> 'AGRICULTt.'^AL MUSEUM 



fs highly injurious to the tender organs of sheep, ami al- 

 though a shelter is useful, in wet freezing weather, it*: 

 only use is to keep their beds dry, for their bodies feel- 

 harm only from lying on vyfct ground, and notfioin falling 

 weather. 



\^m'] The most dsmmon diseases. The diseases of Eng- 

 land and America are very similar, and often pro- 

 ceed from the same causes, although the climate is natu 

 r^lly different. The seower generally attacks ia thV 

 spring, and often proceeds from eating young clot^cr— f 

 When it appears at this season, it is generally cured by 

 shearing the animal which giving a {vco. vent to perspir- 

 ation, checks and ultimately contjuerc the disease. When. 

 at other seasons, dry meal and salt, is perhaps the best 

 medicine, and high short pastures the best regimen. 



[n} The running at the nose. I can by no means agre^ 

 ■with the Pennsylvania farmer, as it respects this disease* 

 i^Iy experience has shewn me, that a running at the nose 

 is liaWe to all ages, and conditions of fshecj), and is gen- 

 crated by damp foul weather, want Of suit, and crouded 

 folds. — I have knov/n it to occur and disappear within a 

 few days. — 1 have no idea, of its being a concomitant of 

 the rot, but rather think it an infhienza, liable to be gene 

 rated and removed by the state of the atmosphere. 



The rot. — I consider as a local disease almost entirely 

 confined to the liver of the animal, and in no wise con- 

 tagious. Parkensonin his Practical Farmer, gives a mi- 

 nute atid satisfactory explanation of this formidable dis- 

 ease, from actual experiment. — It is certain that the rot 

 always proceeds from feeding in moist places where 

 animalcula^ arc generated, and thence imbibed by the 

 sheep. — A sheep dying of rot, will always be found to 

 have a morbid liver, and by use of glasses small tlowkes 

 or insects, will be perceived therein. The rot never ori- 

 ginates in frozen weather, because such insects could not 

 then exist. The rot when taken, admits of no cure other 

 than nature may perform, nor is it contagious, from its 

 being the effect of extra causes. A\\ sh^cp vvljHch iced 



