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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
Mr. Hogg recommends the following unguent to be rubbed over 
every part of the animal, after shearing, with a curry brush : — train or 
seal oil, four gallons; tar, half a gallon ; oil of turpentine, one pint. Mix. 
Mr. John Graham, of Newbigging, perceiving the disadvantage of tar as 
a wool-stainer, and yet desirous of smearing his sheep, used the following 
preparation, in which the tar was omitted, yellow resin being used in 
its stead : — butter, eighteen pounds ; hogs’ lard, eighteen pounds ; resin, 
twelve pounds; Gallipoli oil, one gallon. Mix. This quantity he found 
sufficient for fifty or fifty-five sheep, and the cost of smearing each sheep 
was about four and a half pence. He found this wool, when washed, 
equally valuable with the white wool : and it sold for a considerably 
higher price thau the laid, or tarred wool. The importance of smearing 
or salving is undeniable. The use of a small quantity of some oleaginous 
or greasy application immediately after shearing is now generally ac- 
knowledged. The protection which it affords to the almost denuded 
skin — its substitution for the natural yolk, which is not in its full quan- 
tity immediately secreted — and the softness which it will impart to the 
wool — are circumstances well deserving attention. 
