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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 
INFLAMED UDDER, ETC. 
When the ewe is suckling, she is liable to inflammation 
as well as to hard tumours, in the udder. These are caused 
by obstructions in the lacteals, or milk-vessels; and unless 
they are speedily removed, mortification will ensue in two or 
three days. When tumours are discovered, the ewe should 
be taken into the house, the wool must be cut closely off, 
and the hard parts frequently rubbed with camphorated 
spirit of wine and goulard water, in the proportion of three 
parts of the former to one of the latter. Should the parts 
not get softened by the means recommended, and suppuration 
appear likely to follow, in that case the tumours should be 
opened with a lancet, and the matter squeezed out, and the 
wound carefully dressed with friar’s balsam. It sometimes 
happens that the loss of one or both teats follow this com¬ 
plaint ; when this is the case, then the best way is to fatten 
the ewe, and dispose of her, as she will never afterwards be 
adapted for breeding from. 
CHAPTER VI. 
MANAGEMENT, FEEDING, ETC., OF SHEEP. 
SHELTER. 
The natural habit of sheep is to range at liberty, and that, 
too, over a wide extent of country; therefore, confine¬ 
ment is ever to be avoided, except under peculiar circum¬ 
stances. At the same time, all sheep-farmers must be aware 
of the positive necessity of their being sheltered sometimes; 
