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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1856. 
[Aprit 12, 
skin, the disease however not bein ng extended by , sufficient to cure the most inveterate cases of scab i 
males va 3 their changing ke ta in qa of | sheep. hae ik of Er ee a d remedies consisted o; 
of nour nseque | prepara of arsenic with similar 
muiation 
new sources ane nt, and xten- | pre ury 
| Tesk Simonds then proceeded 
n the skin er She paar 
to the question of ses 
— of ‘Tiving a certain 
animals. Asa lover himself of d ogs, and having taken taken 
great apes with a particular variety of oe ry of 
| pointers, he had experienced the great advantages tobe 
| derived r ca: areful cleanliness of Cra l and the 
n. per! 
eir natural sphere ca the skin of the | disease on em the 
He had i instituted experiments animal to which a nai eae. belonged they 
that he had found the mites | had nevertheless the si r of £ gre 
they sare 
seab- | ito „state that _parasitical insects travelle d to oth ier applic: cati n of * € tantly 
they peculiarly produce ed o They were dressed with it farer Al every spring, pie 
having "octidionally left a ae zog out by way ol 
t | testing the value of the remedy, had found i in that 
po ossible ference *from the others 
from he act hep “He pats ited specimens placed | He cited as an airing ot “this kind the effects of 
knew the reason, 
These fleas it et soa never cee the dog, and can only 
for mi pa ce in castor-oil cartier a | insects infesting common Prager ic | ainda we bene horse. 
pair of naair. He med w 
n 
m: 
He offered Prof. Simonds his own popa 
thanks f for his lecture.—On the a of Mr. Fish 
Hobbs the thanks of the meeting were oted to Colonel 
— ens Vo TH every kind | Poultry, it was known, ith in 
dingl ctiv This effect | kinds, especially with eo nnd Silk d Such inform: 
was owing to the ponte on pe ryote cel “dagen of the | ha “oot ged Be vel from the poultry to given | rovia be highly us 
body of eier ming blocked is glutinous | othe: o in appeared to have the 
fiuid. The rmed n hss etn to this | mange, ‘while ‘their disenso was no mange at all, but 
peculiarity of str in Aar ge lived, however, 1s e had simply the mation occasioned by poultry ticks 
found, n no less than 10 oo in castor-oil, be bares glasses | pie them fror the contiguity of t tt 
badd Ane that period | the stable ; often from the roost being over the stable, 
they were n freely movi ing their limbs in the oil. He in which case the dirt and insects from the birds fell 
therefore d | through the ring upon the horses. tions 
h u 
e by referrin ng t o the third class of parasi ical 
n the motion of Mr, Lawrence it was de cided that 
brady Sag efore 2 o’cloe 
ay, the 25th of June next. 
The C i ai as 
= the skin of animals ft 
Weekly. Meeting 
oi 
state, before cer nid their senha for orm as 
He alluded to the “warbles” as a familiar in- 
result in such cases. These were smal all 
of a Hazel-nut, on the sk cin of 
The dise: 
reat loss in th conidial a the eep, and in the 
uality and roe pe of the wool. the hairy parts of | 
5 t, appeared to suffer less than the 
ekana hel 
T gru 
fies 
stances of a 
tumours, abo ut the size 
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Wednesday the 16th of vt tg 
Calendar of of Operations. 
APRIL 
Fo le GLENS, March 31 .—With us the past has been a 
maggot, nie or bot, the larvee state of the ga deg. 
breese-fly. Particular species of this fly for her tens 
attle, b 
on the backs ut 
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t 
decide Pp 
the knee, and on the hock. Tho. remark of the late tt 
1 may be 
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s 
i the nostrils of she yes and on the hair ¢ 
into existence by mao ae which aoe ip the horse and passing i 
er unavoidable accident, or may ri 
the 2 skin of the sheep. "2 Prof. ; Binong then 1 proceeded | i e 
f the cure of scab. Thi rope minute ox which, wet’ hatched by the h 
ected by the removal of the e, | beneath the scarf-skin and lay se 
y, en pe ction, not only of m ah i or | ne 
mites, but lao b by the destructi their eggs, | afterwards Legge mt into 
to be ire 
the skin, and in nN 
model winter, a general temperature low enough to enable yege- 
table ule to enjoy its usual period of seh bu no time has 
h severi to i 
heir luck in both Sau aad 
n 
tion 
which were ready a few ee after being posted to | | = below 
turn out ty fresh swarm o of a pin, , migh detected ; the ‘fy et avian 
proposed would destroy t me eo aon to ho is skin, In this situation the 
Chee eggs. In the Joao: jer rub passed through the winter. In March diffi 
ost destructive Ky swellings were e forme d o n the backs of the cattle, ‘which 
s and many a 
pplied with real nN P gK so rec 
a reasonable prospect of remuneration. Inquiries regarding the 
e Byr fia Potato pits 
saia 5 but these 
failed t to eradicate the source of ‘disease | induced inflammation. — 
ee 
The grub ‘lay i in its nidus, or 
he approach of “summer, 
receive but one wer, ¥ 
ore than half Totten, y’ notwithstanding the Potatoes continue 
t unsaleal 
ie 
ultimately to be dis ispodbd of as food for cattle; the crop of last 
h to been both extensi 
to hatch. The rubbing-i in of unguents had often | a 
succeeded ; the deleterious matter was absorbed and out of its retreat. On the groun nd i 
d, state, esca] from its hakai asa Perrys 
soon as they came out of their “eggs. ` The ordinary | laid its eas, — died : the eggs again produced grubs, 
mercurial ointment had often been recommended. By cina kar transformations succeeded. It was the 
itšelf, ioiei it was too strong for the purpose. The | sa th the Te of the horse. Wh 
late Mr. 1 it ir power of attaching t 
three or four times its weight of lard. The following | atomash; they i 
are his directions :— 
“A safer a1 and more 
ea 1 
t use among th bs 
5 
z 
s 
be 
m fi Turni urnips, 
t. of Turnips per day will make about 
ng 
ora oes The ae d together with their heads 
got 
eep w n herd 
thus aaae” down, and Tabip stamping with their feet. The fly 
in too large quantities, some of the 
jambs va j —— ew ya rt ape — = at length deposited its egg in their nostrils, ae 
made oi strengths, at for cases shoul i i iti 
consist of pio mercurial, or Soares ointment, rubbed down | | aee a paral RES 
with three times its weight of lard, Tbe other. for ordinary to the fro l sinuses, where a plate of bone — 
purposes, Amey contain five p: ts pr to one of the m al ali ts getting tothe brain. In the case of horned sheep 
ointment. The operator should begin with the head of the sheep, | would get to the extremity of the horny ai In 
and rub a little of the ointment well. into it. A shred or furrow | t } b d 
en be made ft m h o the tail, and in such = aree has PUNS TOUN we atu aires — 
a manner that the skin is e ittle of the ointment | from ir branes, a they subsisted. 
should then be applied with the fin o the skin along the whole | He rem various affection brain in 
c 
ger toth that of the 
nother fee mgs then he geal on | aoe. such a as 8 wees Bip gig, Aen i tarnsiek, goggles, aa 
ca 
the value of 14 ewt. of 
rnips is 
e, Viz., tor pe: 
igh price realised by gro of Tu 
the dealers, and the disappointment experienced in the Potato 
crop, are likely, combined, to remedy the evil of high-priced 
of the ex surface. A The store flocks h got over the winter without y, great 
either side ; rae this way over the whole sheep, the furrows | gad a leiri a ow returning to the glens in good nam: 
ing more than four inches apa When any of the scabs ese; en left at li tty they are soon found to h: arran 
are easily moved they ce d be Taken’ a away; and, last of al oral reaching that organ, had a pra ifferent | selves in tip glens in order of seniority, the oldest wethers rane 
the whole of the ointment that has been thus “applied to the | origin, namely, arising from the formation of little | the highest ground, and the next oldest the next me oF mit- 
tity of ointment well aad to. cok thy tay, Vig hon | hee ladders containing hydatids. He ex- | sammer they will be found in fous divisions; highest Up, the 
few drachme to two ounces, one-third of the quan ‘bang used | hibited to the m rs a skull of the sheep, ree-year-old wethers, which are sold off in the autumn; aa i 
a sheep that has u: ay be con- m explained the hani i ibility of such | order the two-year-olds, below these the one-year-olds, an 
aoe at ne apd of infecting any of the others; the pen Aen on of gad-fiy maggots through the i of rin nrg bea b Ge oa hati he Reeser te 
itching soon subside; ti be destro; t the e extent, but the distinction is v 
the m: as soon as they appear e skin, or it will ak rof. reins mes eran o the —- as kapt up. I ‘the. jara higher range three-year-olds alone will 
iung aed dee a and — om ps = if, e b wage te ogs. This » Thin , and in the = : eof my o 4 of n three vole 
“page A = continue to be much | insect, he remarked, was ihe iui oes of diseased | ‘vis eee ee o TE ORe EE, eni voly OY Sr 
uneasiness or itching, ther lighter ssing may take middle e will be occupie iefly, if not exclusively, bY 
place. This ointment will have a kindly effect on t s of | action and mange on the skin nl ite gr dog, where it) y. ar-olds. ides this general arrangement, cach of G ne 
the wool, encouraging the fb pene and that of the natural yolk, ivisions are found separated into smaller groups, each of wW e it 
oe g for le most useful defence against the ence. The Profes n co cenam of this first portion a uent the same locality, put anes disturbed seldom iiy 
ti ring the season, and whi riven off take the firs 
of his lecture, a by preemie drawings highly of returning, Private friendships seem alsó to exist, two 4 
Professor onds pate that arsenical appli- magnified the peculiar structure of the parasitical i in- | three will often keep each other company fi ole season, g5 r 
cations but they required great care. | sects times for a whole lifetime, and when accidentally separano? 
The best mode was that rinkling a solution of |he had described ; and submitted to the inspecti show evident signs of distress until they are again united. nity 
A po tinctions of rank evidently kept up in the woolly community, 
arsenic, again again, over the e | the members, by means of his mates Ba microscope, a and ti sone dison a obvious; except during the tupping 
Paper form 2: solution was „tbat of torte yi actual specimens from which those magnified draw: wings | season, a h ri ny only wit Tamā, and when ang 
with vegetable Infusi of the rams hav: ced to the condition of wethers, ini 
ignity, 
those of pedis ae a gorges. Duele "roots, &e.| Sir John Johnstone, Bart.,?M. Po moved a vote of E AA E pirot A a abo hy tos Pimiö mix among 
The fac 
joi she gee the 
nal rs ead 
He of co on arsenic, and | 
tenn ç } 
tha nks to Prof. Si monds. 
ina quart | of water until they w age ere ip 
further i mon of water was to be ye added to coin ‘ap a 
gallon of solution. iven during the present season 
infusion was to be added, made by po uring a or the concluding part of the lecture.—Mr. Mainwarin; 
pie boiling water over four ounces of Foxglove Pain ne, in seconding the motion, remarked that tbe in- 
and allowing the infusion to remain till cold, | formation they had ree 
d 
meee eat ar faa any scientific lectures, but before 
ghajwhich science was ren dered = pinfectty intelligible 
farmers, He felt how much more he now knew 
of the etch raini among 
nteresting. They could not fail to 
be iaronn of much a 3 $ ‘and he hoped that some 
would be 
of the cause 
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a distinct class by them: 
niform "ke ae aai ny. ing nursing time the ewes 
i ept upon a jasini pasture, and when taken from the rend 
= dors to the glen among rie other a they disperse th ock is 
in parties throughout the whole, When new averse 
a 8 ggs in spri hey req) ery careful he: war 
ome months until they know their boundaries and have in 
bits formed. If that is earefully attended to they ence Om 
after life seek to leave Sh chased after 
first year never settle upon a new uninclosed pasture; ti 
endeavour to get howe again, are always inclin ming. homi 
and will, if allowed, return from any possible dista a Be 
Notices to Correspondents. 
AGRICULTURAL EXAMINATION BEFORE THE SOCIETY 
HG. We Gey Sot eae what sagen iy yh 
the examine licen bat we presume that you 
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