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ined, and if her nipples are found to be sore, they 

 should be anointed with a soft cerate, made by 

 melting a little bees-wax with twice the weight 

 of hog's lard, or fresh butter : or if the ewe has 

 little or no milk, she should be supplied with plen- 

 ty of nutritious and succulent food, such as roots, 

 wheat-bran, or shorts and water, ground oats, or 

 Indian meal mixed with water : and whilst by 

 these means we are attending to the ewe, and en- 

 deavouring to increase her milk, the lamb must 

 be supported by the milk of another ewe, or 

 that of a fresh cow. It is a general, and I btlieve 

 a well founded opinion, that the milk of a farrow 

 cow, or one that has calved long before, is injuri- 

 ous to lambs and will destroy them. 



Lambs, whilst very young, are particularly ex- 

 posed to two complaints, a purging, which will 

 be relieved by a tea spoon full or two of fine chalk, 

 and as much gin, mixed with a little milk, given 

 twice a day : to which, if the disease proves ob- 

 stinate, add one, two, or three drops of laudanum, 

 according to the age of the lamb : again, when the 

 ewes are first put to grass, lambs are apt to be 

 attacked with a purging, which, however, seldom 

 lasts above a day or two, and then subsides ; leav- 

 ing them in better health than it found them. If, 

 however, it should continue longer, and the lamb 

 should appear to fail under it, it will be relieved 

 by the same chalk mixture. 



The disease called Pind'mg- in lambs is the ef- 

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