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son, it is given spring and fall, to the quantity of 

 128 lbs. per annum to every 1000 sheep. Lord 

 Somerville mentions as much as a ton annually to 

 1000 sheep ; and recommends it, whenever sheep 

 are put on strong wet lands or young clover ; and 

 in the fall of the year, when sheep are first put on 

 turnips, as a preventive against the rot. By 

 some farmers, it is withheld from ewes within 

 four or five weeks of lambing, from a supposition 

 that it is so great a provocative as to induce them 

 to drink too much. In Europe, it is frequently 

 mixed with yarrow, and other bitter herbs, as a 

 stomachic ; the place of which may be supplied 

 with us by branches of spruce, cedar and pine, of 

 which sheep are very fond, and which agree per- 

 fectly well with them : or it may occasionally be 

 mixed with tar, by spreading them on a board, 

 which is certainly a good and healthy practice. 



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