Salt for Sheep. 77 



artificial feeding, which hastens on maturity in con- 

 trast to our pasture grazing, but for pasture grazing 

 only the supply to flocks of a few pounds of salt per 

 head per year would mean a substantial increase in wool 

 and mutton returns, and repay manyfold the infinitely 

 small outlay in trouble and cost. Artificial feeding and 

 salt and access to water are an essential combination in 

 successful results. The value of salt in unfavourable 

 sheep conditions is very great. It is a deadly enemy 

 of internal parasites. 



Salt, ordinary coarse in preference to rock, may be 

 given to sheep by itself in a box, placed under a tree, or 

 with a raised roof providing protection from the rain, 

 or, it may be given along with other sheep tonics, 

 especially during the spring and autumn, when the 

 sheep's state requires stimulus to resist disease: lOOlb. 

 salt, 61b. lime, 31b. sulphate of iron, with, sometimes 

 added , lib. flowers of sulphur, all mixed, is good. This 

 is much liked by sheep, and anything that is liked by an 

 animal does it good by bracing up the system. And the 

 above acts as a safeguard against internal complaints, 

 and helps to cure them. 



