JUNE. 379 



In common clipping, the pay per score is 2s. 6d. 

 to 3s 6d. for washing, clipping, and winding ; la- 

 bour being at Is. 6d. a day. 



THE FLY. 



Sheep that are kept in enclosures, and especially 

 in a woodland country, should be examined every 

 day, lest they be fly-struck : in 24 hours it may be 

 almost past cure. 



" As a preventive of the fly, the midland shep- 

 herds use curious applications, especially to the 

 lambs. Train-oil is found to be efficacious ; but it 

 fouls the wool, and makes the sheep disagreeable 

 to touch. An ointment made of butter and the 

 flowers of sulphur, seems to be in the best repute*. 



" Insects certainly have their antipathies, and to 

 find out those of the sheep-fly, is an interesting 

 subject of inquiry. 



" The method of destroying maggots here, is 

 effectual, and if applied in time, simple and easy. 

 Instead of cutting the wool off the part affected, 

 and scraping off the maggots with the points of 

 the shears, the wool is parted, and the maggots 

 picked out with a knife, or otherwise dislodged, 

 without breaking the coat ; and a small quantity of 

 white lead scraped from a lump, among the wool ; 

 which being agitated, the powder is carried evenly 



* The butter being melted, a sufficiency of brimstone is 

 stirred into it, to form an ointment of a pretty firm consistency. 

 In application, a piece the size of a small walnut is rubbed between 

 the hands, and these drawn along the backs of the sheep. 



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