^0 The Shepherds^ Guide* 



feet of a purging with viscid excrements, hy 

 ,which the tail becomes so glued to the buttocks 

 as to prevent the escape of the excrement. It is 

 the fault of the shepherd if it ever amounts to a 

 disease, because a very little attention v^WX pre- 

 vent it. As soon as anv tendency to it is discover- 

 ed, let the parts be well cleaned, and then rubbed 

 with a little powdered clay cr chalk. 



Scouring\ Old sheep, when first put to grass^ 

 especially on moist pastures, which have been 

 flooded during the winter, are very apt to be at- 

 tacked with diarrhoea. The best preventive of 

 this complaint is to put them from dry food, upon 

 a piece of rowen, which has been shut up from the 

 first months of the preceding fall ; where they will 

 find a mixture of dry and new grass, which will 

 prevent the consequence of too sudden a change. 

 Wher€ this has not been provided, they should be 

 brought up once a- day, and given a little ha)^ or 

 grain. Where, notwithstanding the disease 

 ©omes on, it is generally of little consequence ; or 

 when obstinate, may be relieved by the chalk 

 mixture, increasing the dose to a table spoon full 

 of chalk and of spirits, and five or six drops of 

 laudanum : and if this should prove ineffectual, 

 boil four ounces of chipped logwood, in three 

 pints of water, for ten or fifteen minutes, and give 

 the chalk mixture, each time in a gill of this de- 

 coction. 



Sometimes we are informed that sheep are at- 



