Apart 30, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND 
AGRICULTURAT. _ GAZES. 
419 
Mr. R. Colling’s white bull the only male, being of the 
Princess erm rey all these three tribes, so bred, are | 
united in of the Dake of Northumberland— | 
ort-horns he 
pot no other Sh so 
and t bred.— 
superiority of the vcn er Mr. R. Colling's white bull | 
coming in contact with animals suffering from this] 
pone it begins to rub on every bank sem or prose 
of pace which ha to 
ach, A 
his sire, 
mitted oe Mr. C. Colling—and I 
m 100 guineas to have had 
ld not obtain 
over 
an was ad 
ws 
ex 
wt 
the matter was as perfectly my remembrance 
as that v - aen or malipiation robin nor have 
I ha d ca alter opin 
n fo rmed, and pla 
mistak obe 
been pieca] 
3 As far as my “pri experience exte nds, I 
else, 
t 
Ter 
ed on 
footing, the conti ud ru ubbing, gens and gnawing, 
soon bre aks the pustules, exude a hot acrid 
uid 
con 
and lar 
fluid; this fl when harea orta a intment, mercury ,in the. pro- 
skin, destroying the cuticle or scarf skin the former ; 1 
ffects the true skin in which the wool is rooted, be sais aA most chemists at ls. p r lb.; 
m which it rives its nourishment. Still the|for several years I have used it on large flocks, 
rubbing continues, but this time the scab when dis-| dressing all stock ewes and lambs during the 
laced carries with ita part of the wool, leaving an | month of October or rires. of oneal the ewes 
i € 
the ju half ment I formed 35 years ago was ‘correct i 
till 1812, I 
d 
; and from 1812 till | 
firs 1838, I never sh 
E at public exhibitins (26 years between); and it | 
ith great re luctance that I again n did so, well 
tI}? 
cont: 
From 1805, p^ oe the Tynedale 
ings is P 
n 
animal | 
ration o 
e p. 
"S 
| per s 
per seeps ui E out ay is = dvb repaid] in the increased 
f| qua tity o The | health of the sheep - 
e v ead, 
still to remain unchecke d, the violent rubbing and E» 
char; ree -— sores often causes it to = off in a 
| har 
insects are dest tor the’ s amm res& much pap 
ages sap the same quantity of food B snm 
eater ea of mutton. In - with 
ointm r turn thar sheep 
its yar 
cab in all animals is seldom 
34 
- 
he opera 
on its back, pa us His wool down red throat and neck 
urgent sac of a ings 
stranger, who ha appened ‘inhotobsttinn ally to have seen | an 
ttl 
York, in 1838, a 
to them, the three best animals were 
then I sent the next year to the Royal English Agricul- 
tural Society’s first meeting at Oxford, expecting those | 
e w ave agai 
e premiums were a 
e 
none of those 
ork obtained ! 
rejected; and | do 
e oer i ai are comforta ably lodg 
desir f fe n ike many other diseases it is fostered 
o support the bo ody | 
ealthy hence we invariably find the | 
n Y S 
ged and hand 
eh brisket, ated the wool o n with the left 
ith the two first fin 
exei ud wool down the m 
and a tio! 
astured on the roadsides and commons, or | fr 
oi 
then kd p^ sheep on its ax and parts the wool 
from the enr to the hip, puttin wo D 
cks 
amongst ys e sheep on some exposed and bazren moun 
[tain top, where an insufficient quantity of rough | 
innutritious food affords a ger fh subsistence for those 
not 
of my own n got her | , 
, Or T eu ould have gone to P 
my first Duchess, I hav 
Mom upon ys while all other Short-horas 
then i in existence have been getting worse and w 
‘denizens of the wilder ress. I dou t the ' dise ease d 
g,! 
short ones on zm hips and octet a ^ smal quantity 
| rubbe d on the skin of the flank and f 
the operation, Care s eos - taken that the ointment 
is close ien aid to the skin, a proper attention to om 
+h 
v Shepherd faithful servant the do og, | 
of careless 
become e 
An experience of twenty yea: 
of large „Shee ep flocks, 
irit 
South 
3 el 
- the importance of the su ubject of 
ock from my a 
T suffer from scab “under 
scab bis origin: ates in well Pied well mph ds: 
in fact in all my experience I never knew a flock 
thos ose TA except 
evidently re uires. C is 
the live s - 
comi itn in 
3 
TR with infected de. or 
pieni 
warmth ‘of the body soon causes the ointment t 
the The shepherd or 
he 
whole surface of the skin. 
mall end being cut 
and corked eas a piece of rg "this i is attached to 
hand b 
dificalt) s using per 
score. 
Remedial Treatment.—Sheep suffering from seab, 
either; in its earlier or more dicen stages, require 
rompt treatm ont, in order ch s inroads. 
sed fur 
Various mixtures h ve been recommen 
yc 
astured on land where shee ep mier from the | a 
ave been „recently lying on, uninclosed sheep 
ong"s specific, 
wa 
parts of ‘sha country, the droves passing to and from 
hi tirs and ae frequently leave the disease 
amongst e flocks. 
Another co 
the na cf | qu 
MED tansion" "ot the scab to clean flocks is from 
contains a co 
vegetable poisons, is perfectly harmless in its n 
both to p health of the sheep pa the 
z being equa al 
| the interval m 
brougbt home again and mixed with the regular flock 
to the n anticipations they are o 
y mixture at pres 
ewe 
t used for that purpose, at the 
mu ust p* di 
isguise | the fact that great 
fà 
to await the nd fair or market, and - unlikely i in 
ave come in eontaet with shee 
suffering from way many a um flock has | 
been used; ; whenever | this happens it is entirely due to 
When 
iei, n this 
been polluted, to the rei aunoyance and 1 
irc 
Pre 
in Pg print ke owe in the same paper in which you 
— insar g the portraits of “ The Duke” read his 
. Ido not u— any artist can do them 
‘Mast be and the mo Xo 
ni 
judges—hundreds of men us 
be found to makes k, Prime ees for T fit to judge 
the real merits —In gre: i de iwl remain, 
‘Yours truly, BATES. 
Xing, near Yarm, | iun, "ow. 11, 1842. 
SCAB IN ida 
sis produc ed b: mall insect furnished 
ving at their "extreite trumpet-like | p 
a ts for effectin 
;, From 10 to 15 n 
infection, supposing 
m contracted b 
: fer his sab Py uli my eens xps its effects butoro the follo owing 
hee been fairly BN and tha*|summer. It 
ant of proper | i e thos 
applied in too large quantities salivation and intestinal 
irritation is the result; when this is the case t 
is sometimes seized with a violent and pir mees 
purging, which soon reduces it to a complete skeleton, 
vhsnero a kind time, Provide Potete ending fal se their ruin, diateicta "Y me : ig wem crore Py 2 jc 
vers mide e , fo enable dressed about the end o hyped or pr part of | 
November with a mixture of tar and ** butte 
grease 
or palm oil,” ien undoubte diy i in all wet and exposed 
"arii was advantageous to Sue health and co omfor t 
violent form of scab 2} to 31b. per score is an ample 
dressing when properly applied ; used at this rate t is 
f the ani s ded the same time t 
védéied in e to the niad ieie this « dressing 
was said to 5 yis eve ent the attacks and kill TE deis 
other insects which pim uw 8 For 
tem has bee 
[ 
s doner do they i PET 2 the quality or le exi 
quét tity of the fleece, erefore 
referred to any of the arsenice 
to sed. The ad, 
invari ine 
wntity and walle of the wool; 
bn health of “the ‘animal, 
ockmasters to suffer 
se is also very 
I have als 
t losses from 
depends on the way it is put orl : depre um be laid. a 
the skin and not on the wool, a n the ca 
t should then be parted with a sharp 
the cintment well rubbed in till reaches the 
days or a fortnight after 
from t 
| knife 
ne th 
voe only on or affected 
y should A s regularly and carefully 
nths, w 
parts; 
ly gone 
sais win hen, if t the d 
fro 
cast thei ir wool, and should they live 
in ee tl cure, as ep vool 
it the scab from 
do no! 
mi wise attended wi ith c onsiderable 
even the nails from SEU a samga gp enir 
Gaci n 
itn ithe ‘een killed with the o 
In 1856 the writer ee d, of a y om 80 Glou- 
r red which w 
m dressed immediately with 
rate of three pounds 
