1 80 Essay on Sheep. — Appendix. 



I have happily discovered a mode of entirely 

 destroying the tick, which is easy in the appli- 

 cation, and attended with no danger. Take a 

 bellows, to the nozel of which a pipe must be 

 affixed capable of containing a handful of to- 

 bacco; (the refuse from the tobacconist's will 

 answer); set fire to the tobacco, and while one 

 man holds the sheep between his knees, let an- 

 other open the wool, while a third blows the 

 smoke into the fleece; close the wool on the 

 smoke, and open another place a few inches 

 from it, and so go over the whole sheep, blow- 

 ing also under the belly and between the legs: 

 in twenty-four hours every tick will be killed. 

 The whole operation may be performed upon 

 a sheep in about two minutes. 



Cold, and its consequence, — When sheep are 

 very ill kept, or when they lay upon damp or 

 wet ground in the spring and autumn, they are 

 subject to colds, which appear by the discharge 

 of mucus from the nose and eyes, and some- 

 times by blindness. The cure is warmth, dry 

 litter, and good food. It will however happen, 

 that some sheep have at all times this discharge 

 from the nose; but, upon examination, those 

 will generally be found to be old, and should 

 be fatted as soon as possible, as they disfigure 

 a flock, and do not pay for their keeping. 



