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fucking them : the fucking their mothers and 

 hot weather will bring on or occafion faliva- 

 tion, and prove fatal to the lambs, A friend 

 of mine once had a very heavy lofs on falving 

 his ewes at clipping day. 



My method is, to lay on the ointment in 

 very fmall quantities, in fheds four inches 

 afunder, and to rub it into the fkin as perfectly 

 as poffible. 



This ointment in clumfy injudicious hands 

 kills many fheep in hot weather : but I do 

 my fheep lightly over with it at the latter end 

 of every feafon, at an expence of two-pence 

 per head, to deftroy fags and lice. It is a great 

 preferver of wool, whereas mercury-water is 

 apt to clot and fpoil it. 



There are diforders which are called the 

 meagrimsy rickets, and rubbers. Thefe difeafes 

 are fuppofed by many to arife from breeding 

 from the fame fort of fiieep a long time toge- 

 ther on the fame land : but this opinion was 

 fully confuted by Mr. Bakewell ; for he perfe- 

 vered in breeding from one fort of fheep on 

 the fame foil, for a confiderable number of 

 fucceffive years, without any inconvenience of 

 the kind. 



However 



