NO. 9. 



THE FARMtRS' CABINET. 



139 



of the character of the disease. Other dis- 

 eases will produce an inflammation of the 

 eyes and mouth; but hot feet are an infallible 

 symptom of fever. This disease is often 

 fatal in itself, and frequently induces others 

 which are equally so. The cause is gene- 

 rally a cold. When only two or three of the 

 flock are affected by it, the case is less des- 

 perate; but when many are attacked with it, 

 It is more fatal. 



The remedy is to keep the sheep in warm- 

 er and more sheltered places, bleed and 

 give the foUowinor medicine. Heat a quart 

 of ale, and dissolve in it an ounce of mithri- 

 date— add half an ounce of Virginia snake- 

 root, and one dram of cochineal in powder. 

 This quantity serves for four doses, and one 

 of them to be given morning and evening. If 

 the sheep is bound in its body, an ounce of 

 lenitive electuary is to be mixed with each 

 dose; but if looser than ordinary it ought 

 not to be checked as it will contribute to the 

 cure. 



Leave nature to her course when a purging 

 comes on with a fever; but when the fever 

 is abated it should be stopped; and the same 

 remedy that answers for this purpose, may 

 be adopted for such purgings as come on of 

 themselves. Boil a quarter of a pound of 

 raspings of logwood in two quarts of water, 

 till but a quart is left, and when it is nearly 

 boiled down put in a stick of cinnamon, strain 

 it off, and give the sheep a quarter of a pint, 

 four times a day, till the purging ceases. 



If this does not produce the desired result, 

 the following addition will render it sure of 

 success. To every dose add a quarter of an 

 ounce of diascordium without honey, and ten 

 grains of Japan earth powdered, and give the 

 doses only morning and evening. 



Tag. 



The tag is an external disease owing to 

 the complaint last named. It is a distemper 

 of the tail, beginning with filth and foulness, 

 and ending in ulceration. The tag is situat- 

 ed in the inner part of the tail — it consists of 

 scabs and sores, very painful and wasting to 

 the animal, and is owing to the fouling this 

 part by a purging. That tag is worst which 

 follows a fever, because the inflamed state of 

 the blood tends to increase the disorder, and 

 when it begins, during the continuance of 

 the disease, the matter of the fever may chance 

 to settle it there. Two things are to be done; 

 the first is to stop the purging; and the other, 

 to clean the tail. 



The last mentioned remedy, either in its 

 weaker or stronger form, is to be used to stop 

 the purging; and the tail being clipped, and 

 the sore part laid bare, first wash it witJi 



milk and water blood warm, and then with 

 lime water. After this turn tliu sheep into a 

 clean dry pasture. Two days after look at 

 it again, and, if not well, repeat the washing, 

 and anoint it with grease and tar mixed to- 

 gether. Twice doing of this is generally 

 sufficient to complete the cure. 



Diseases of the liiiiigs. 



Sheep are subject to be diseased in the 

 lungs, which is easily perceived by their 

 breathing, or by their coughing. Nothing 

 requires a more speedy remedy; for they 

 grow incurable, when it is neglected but a 

 short time, and die as men in the consump- 

 tion. Change of their pasture is essential to 

 the cure — without it no remedy is effectual. 

 It is owing to cold, and generally attacks 

 sheep that have been kept on low grounds 

 in wet weather. 



When any of the flock exhibit symptoms 

 of diseased lungs, drive them into an enclos- 

 ed pasture where there is short grass and 

 gravelly soil; and where there is spring or 

 other running water. Bruise a basket full 

 of the leaves of colt's foot, and press out the 

 juice. Bruise a quantity of plantain leaves 

 and roots together, and press out thejuice. — 

 Mix these, and bruise as much garlic as will 

 yield about a fourth part as much juice as one 

 of the others. Mix all together, and add to 

 them a pound of honey, an ounce of aniseeds, 

 and an ounce and a half of elecampane. 

 Give a quarter of a pint of this, warm, to 

 every sheep that is affected, once in a day, 

 and it will by degrees make a perfect cure. 



Jaundice. 



Sheep are more subject than any other ani- 

 mals to obstructions of the liver. When this 

 is the case it is seen in a yellowness of the 

 eyes, and a tinct of the same kind in the skin. 

 Farmers in some places, call this the choler, 

 or, in their language, the color. 



When sheep are attacked with jaundice 

 they should be put into an open pasture, and 

 kept in moderate motion, but not fatigued. 

 Boil in four gallons of water two pounds of 

 fennel roots, the same quantity of parsley 

 roots, and twice as much roots of couch-grass, 

 all cut small. "When the water is very strong 

 of them, and there is about half the quantity 

 left, strain itoff, by pressingit hard. Bruise 

 as much great celandine as will yield there 

 pints of juice, add this to the liquor, and put 

 in three drams of salt of steel. Mix all toge- 

 ther, and every day heat so much of it as will 

 serve to give every sheep that is ill, a gill 

 and a half for a dose. This, with the fore- 

 mentioned directions, rarely fails of a cure. 



(7b be Continued.) 



