Cato*s Farm Management 



of well strained amurca,^ of water 

 in which lupine has been steeped, and 

 of lees of good wine. After shearing, 

 anoint all the flock with this mixture, 

 and let them sweat profusely for two 

 or three days. Then dip them in the 

 sea. If you have no sea water, make 

 salt water and dip then in that. If 

 you will do this they will suffer no 

 scab, they will have more and better 

 wool and they will not be molested 

 by ticks. 



(lxxi) If an ox begins to sicken, 

 give him without delay a raw 

 hen's tgg and make him swallow it 

 whole. The next day make him 

 drink from a wooden bowl a measure 

 of wine in which has been scraped 

 the head of an onion. Both the ox 



^ Amurca was the dregs of olive oil. Cato rec- 

 ommends its use for many purposes in the economy 

 of the farm, for a moth proof (XCVIII), as a relish 

 for cattle (CIII), as a fertilizer (CXXX), and as 

 an anointment for the threshing floor to kill weevil 

 (XCI). 



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