1 8 The Sheep- Scab. 



As with the cattle disease, pleuro-pneumonia, 

 both in Great Britain and in the United States, 

 the pithy, pertinent, and most significant motto 

 is,^^ Stamp it ouf by the isolation and slaughter 

 of the animals, if need be, rather than to permit 

 this terrible malady to spread: so of the scab; 

 if it be in a flock of sheep stamp it out, at what- 

 ever sacrifice. There is this difference, how- 

 ever, between these two plagues; the former is 

 deemed incurable, while the latter, as will be 

 shown, is curable. ' 



It may be argued by the ignorant or malicious, 

 or by the novice, that the scab cannot be cured. 

 To those I would mention an instance that 

 comes within my personal knowledge, and of 

 recent date; the party interested being an en- 

 terprising Scotchman residing in one of the 

 Western States. Said he, " I coom here, a few 

 years ago, with only eight sheep and vary leetle 

 mooney, and now I have twa thousand sheep and 

 mooney in the bank." He had earned his money 

 and his flock by purchasing and curing scabby 

 sheep ! 



