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much reduced in flefh, have got through the 

 winter, fed very well in the fpring, and lived 

 many years. 



In the rot, as in every other difeafe, there 

 will be a greater chance of obtaining a cure, if 

 you attack it in time, and endeavour to flop 

 its progrefs. Therefore, when, either fom the 

 extraordinary wetntfs ofthe feafon, or from any 

 other caufe, a fufpicion arifes that your fheep 

 are infedted, you will do well to examine them 

 with the greateft care; and by the following 

 figns you may decide to a certainty whether 

 they are difeafed. Look under the upper eye- 

 lid ', and if the part appears white, and the veins 

 feem to have little or no blood in them, you 

 may reft afiured they are afFe6led, and that the 

 fheep has the rot, and will from thenceforth 

 decreafe in value. 



If you kill a fheep and boil the liver, and it 

 difTolve and boil away, it is a certain fign of 

 the diforder having taken place; and the foon- 

 er you difpofe of the fheep the better. 



People in general are prejudiced againft 

 mutton, if they fuppofe the fheep to have had 

 but a touch of the rot s and the Jews are more 



fcrupulous 



