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day, with green food, such as potatoes, carrots beets, 

 parsnips, cabbages and apples. Boughs of hemlxk and 

 pine are good; those of spruce and fir will answer, but 

 are not so good. Bran mashes are good to keep the 

 bowels open. Clover hay is more laxative than other 

 fodder. 



Remedy. A table spoonful of castor-oil to each sheep 

 generally gives relief, and soon effects a cure under good 

 treatment as to food. 



Another. Give each a gill of hog's lard. 



Another. Give each an ounce of Epsom salts. 



Another. In Morrell's " American Shepherd," a 

 work of great merit, it is said that a neighbor gave 

 each a quid of tobacco, which always proved effectual. 

 This is physical. 



BRAXY. 



Causes. Exposure to severe storms, poor keep, 

 plunging into water when hot, feeding on frost-bitten, 

 putrid, or indigestible food. Many die of this disorder 

 on the prairies. 



Symptoms. Loathing of food ; hanging the head ; 

 drawing up the back ; swelled belly, and feverishness. 



Remedy. Give a dose of physic of Epsom salts, one 

 and a half ounces or two table spoonfuls of castor-oil. 

 If the physic does not operate in six hours, give an in- 

 jection, an exciting one if necessary, to cause the physic 

 to operate. Give gruel, and light laxative food. Pro- 

 vide warm, dry shelter, pure water, and good food. 



DROPSY. 



Sheep are often swelled with water in their bellies, 

 and if not attended to it is certain death. There are 

 two states. The one is water between the outward flesh 

 and the rim, the other within the rim. In the first case 

 .he cure is easy ; in the other, nothing can be done. 



Remedy. In the first case, the cure is by a kind ot 

 lapping. An opening is to be made in the flesh, and a 

 quill put in. This will give the watc r a free passage 



