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give them some crusts of wheat bread. A slight 

 purging will not hurt them. 



Hove. 



Sheep, like neat-cattle, when put into clover- 

 pastures, sometimes have their stomachs distended 

 by wind, so that they will die if not relieved. The 

 swelling rises highest on the left side, and in this 

 place let the knife be inserted, or other means used 

 to the same effect. 



Pining. 



When the excrement of the lamb becomes so 

 glutinous as to fasten the tail to the vent, it must 

 be washed clean, and have the buttocks and tail 

 rubbed with dry clay, which will prevent any fur 

 thcr adhesion. 



Sometimes it may be found necessary to bleed 

 aheep, to allay some inflammatory disorder. 



Daubenton recommends bleeding in the lower 

 part of the cheek, at the spot where the root of 

 the fourth tooth is placed, which is the thickest 

 part of the cheek, and is marked on the external 

 surface of the bone of the upper jaw, by a tuber- 

 cle sufficiently prominent to be very sensible to 

 the finger, when the skin of the cheek is touched. 

 This tubercle is a certain index to the angular 

 vein which is placed below. 



The method of bleeding, after finding the vein, 

 it is hardly necessary to describe. 



Philip De Castro, a Spemish shepherd, has 

 written a short treatise on the diseases of sheep 

 in Spain, and of their management there; and he 

 recommends that bleeding should be performed in 

 a vein in the fore part of the dug. The essay of 

 this shepherd is believed to be worthy of some 

 further notice. 



