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tus, two hands will readily dip a hundred in an hour. 

 If the solution is of proper strength, not a tick will be 

 found alive in ten minutes after immersion. 



Another. One of the most effectual and convenient 

 modes, both to the operator and the animals, is to fumi- 

 gate with tobacco smoke. We have observed that smoke 

 is instant death to the filthy rascals. It may be taken 

 up into a bellows, in the same way as air, and blown 

 into the wool. A very cheap and convenient apparatus 

 may be made of tin or green wood, into which tobacco 

 and a live coal may be put, and with the bellows the 

 smoke may be blown into the wool. The apparatus 

 should be pointed, and the wool opened, and the point 

 put near the skin and closed around it. After blowing 

 in the smoke, take it out, close up the wool, and move 

 to another place some eight or ten inches off, and thus 

 i.'^o over the whole fleece, which requires but a short 

 lime. We prefer this to all other methods, as nothing 

 IS more effectual and harmless to the sheep. Sometimes 

 tobacco makes sheep sick, and it has killed lambs. 



New rum or whiskey, rubbed all over the animal, is 

 a good remedy for vermin of almost ever}' kind. 



SCAB. 



This is one of the most destructive diseases that sheep 

 are liable to in this country. It is so contagious that 

 where it has once entered a flock, it generally passes 

 through it, unless stayed in its course. 



Cause. It is the work of a parasitical insect of the 

 acarus family, similar to the itch in the human race. 



Symptoms. It first makes its appearance on the 

 shoulder and back; the animal rubs itself against every 

 object, — the irritation constantly increasing till it tears 

 out the wool with its teeth, — and exhibits intense suffer- 

 mg. Little red pustules will appear along the back, and 

 are succeeded by a dry scab. 



Remedy. Chancellor Livingston recommended spirits 

 of turpentine and hog's lard, parts not named. One 

 says he tried it with success. 

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