S8 The Shepherds^ Guide. 



(blue stone) or the surface of the ulcer may be 

 Tubbed with the vitriol itself, and then covered 

 with dry lint, and a pledget of tow, spread with the 

 above tar ointment. This mode of dressing must 

 be continued daily, until the ulcer assumes a flo- 

 rid red colour, and discharges a white, or yellow- 

 ish matter, which is no longer offensive. After 

 which^ it is only necessary to keep it clean, and to 

 dress it simply with the tar ointment. 



We frequently hear farmers complain of being 

 unlucky with their lambs : they have lost a great 

 number. But in this case, as in too many others, 

 misfortune generally originates in misconduct ; 

 and nine times out of ten, if a farmer does not 

 raise as many, or very nearly as many lambs a$ 

 he has ewes that lamb, we may conclude his 

 ewes have not been well fed, or his tender lambs 

 have been exposed to the severities of cold and 

 wet^ without shelter and. without litter : although 

 a very tender, a lamb is really a very healthy aru- 

 mal, and if well fed and well sheltered, is seldom 

 lost. 



A lamb perishing from hunger appears hollow 

 at the flanks ; has a weak and mourntul cry ; is apt 

 to follow any sheep that comes near it ; and is 

 either neglected by its dam, or if it attempts to 

 suck h(ir, she sprmgs forward and w411 not suffer 

 it to take the teat. As soon as these circum- 

 stances are discovered, the ewe and lamb should 

 be confined ; the teats of the ewe should be exam- 



