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TO CURE POISON. 



When snow foils before you have taken up 

 your sheep, they often, through force of hunger, 

 eat winter-green, which will make them froih at 

 the mouth and swell, and ^n a little time die. 



Cure. — Take a gill of sweet oil, or for want 

 of that, hog's fat or fresh butter; mix it with a 

 pint of new milk to be given to the sheep ; if it 

 is taken seasonably it will effect a cure. 



LOSS OF THE CUD. 

 Take the cud from another sheep and divide 

 it between the two, or mix clay in urine with the 

 powder of alum, make it up in little balls and 

 put one or two down the sheep's throat, and after 

 h a half a pint of vinegar. 



TO INCREASE MILK. 

 In the spring give the ewes beans, corn, or 

 potatoes, and in the summer change of pasture ; 

 this vAW increase the milk, and make the lambs 

 grow well. 



FOR THE SCAB OR ITCH. 



Anoint the part affected with tar and flesh 

 butter, mixed together, or wash the sheep in pen- 

 nyroyal water, and it will preserve them from the 

 scab. 



FEVER IN SHEEP. 



Dissolve half an ounce of nitre in water and 

 vinegar, and give it to the sheep luke*warm. 



TO KILL MAGGOTS IN SHEEP. 

 Mix tar and goose grease, equal quantities, 

 and stir in flower of sulphur, as much as to make 

 it of a proper consistence, anoint the place with 

 the ointment, and it will kill them. 



