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succulent herbage, & c. This drink, which is sufficient for about 
one hundred and thirty sheep, is not expensive, and can be easily 
prepared any where. 
11. During the stormy summer nights, and the cool autumnal 
nights, cause the sheep to be kept in the fold. 
12. Lastly, all sheep owners and shepherds should make a 
point of examining the skin of the natural openings, and of the 
eyes of the animals, to assure themselves that they have not too 
much blood; and should practise bleeding from the jugular and 
the subcutaneous facial veins, in order to be able to perform this 
operation at once in cases of necessity. This may easily be done 
when a sheep is killed. 
Among the plants which sheep find in fields, M. Gasparin 
has mentioned those of an intoxicating and narcotic nature, 
as being calculated to produce the disease of the blood. M. 
Delafond considers this opinion to be too exclusive, and plainly 
demonstrates that the gleaning of cereales and leguminous crops 
is much more to be feared than those plants. For our own part, 
observation as well as facts have proved to us, that the plants 
grazed on by sheep after the harvest can contribute but little to 
the development of this affection, and are only to be feared in 
so far as they may predispose sheep to a dropsical cachexia, 
when they are luxuriant and the weather is wet. And what 
tends to support my assertion is, that it is particularly in wet rainy 
years, when these plants are luxuriant, that the disease is most 
rarely seen, while it breaks out with violence and carries off most 
victims when the grass is fine and the summer has been dry. 
It frequently happens that in arable land, where there are few 
if any parasitical plants, the disease of the blood will manifest 
itself with frightful and murderous intensity among sheep turned 
in before the gleaning, and is particularly fatal in such as have 
eaten the ears of corn. 
The reason why young and vigorous animals are always the 
first victims is, that, being constantly at the head of the flock, they 
find more ears and husks, eat more, and make more blood, and 
quicker, than the other animals. 
[To be continued.] 
