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DISEASES OF SHEEP.—BENEFITS OF SALT AS MANURE. 
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DISEASES OF SHEEP. 
Cure for Hoven. —Take £ lb. of lard, 1 pint of 
milk, boil both down to a pint, mixing them well 
together. Give half of this immediately at blood 
heat, and the remainder soon after. 
Another . Give 1 gill of urine with as much 
salt as it will dissolve. 
Hoven arises from eating an excess of wet clo¬ 
ver. This should be avoided by keeping the ani¬ 
mals from clover fields which are drenched with 
rain or heavy dews, especially when particularly 
hungry. 
Cure for Scab. —To 1 lb. tobacco, add 12 qts. 
ley from wood-ashes of suitable strength for wash¬ 
ing, and 4 qts. urine. To this mixture add a sec¬ 
ond of 1 gill high wines, £ oz. camphor, J oz. 
Spanish brown, and ^ gill spirits of turpentine. 
The application to be made to the sore, and it has 
never been known to fail. 
Cure for Foot Rot. —Pare the foot well and 
scrape it thoroughly; then add to a wineglass 
full of spirits of antimony, a piece of blue vitriol 
the size of a walnut dissolved in a little urine; 
rub this well on with a stick. If a sheep is very 
bad, and foot festering or gangrenous, take the 
yolk of two eggs, mix with one or two oz. gum 
turpentine, and stir them till they make a salve. 
Put on the salve after you have applied the first 
prescription, and tie it on with a rag or piece of 
leather. 
The last resort for foot rot is butter of antimony, 
and a few minutes after, apply white lead freely. 
Cure for W ithers Coming Down. —Wash them 
with milk and water before returning them—or 
boil 2 qts. milk with a good deal of lard, and wash 
them often while putting up. 
To Make a Sheep own a Lamb. —Milk all over 
the lamb and under his tail, and rub it on well, 
then tie up the ewe head and body. 
Another. Rub the liver, and light, and contents 
of the stomach of the dead iamb over the new 
lamb, and put the skin of the dead lamb to the 
adopted one. 
Cure for Stretches. —Sheep sometimes stretch 
out their noses on the ground and around by their 
side as if in severe pain. This is frequently occa¬ 
sioned by an involution of a part of the intestine 
within another, called, when occurring in the hu¬ 
man subject, intersusceptio. Immediate relief is 
afforded when this last is the cause, by lifting up 
the animal by the hind legs, and shaking them a 
few times, when the pain disappears. 
All the above are furnished us by a friend who 
has long been practically engaged in rearing sheep. 
We solicit a continuation of such from all who are 
practically acquainted with the subject on which 
they write. 
BENEFITS OF SALT AS MANURE. 
We have recently been perusing several Euro¬ 
pean articles, detailing experiments made with 
salt as a manure, and from them we have made 
the following brief synopsis of its utility. 
It attracts the humid vapors and repels frost, 
and thus assists in keeping the land moist in dry 
weather, and warm in cold. It keeps everything 
in the soil in a soft and soluble state, and assists 
to digest and prepare the food for vegetable nutri¬ 
tion. It destroys many kinds of vermin and 
weeds, and usually increases the amount of the 
crop from one fourth to one third ; strengthens the 
growth of everything to which it is applied, and 
brings all crops earlier to harvest. It generally 
adds from 5 to 7 bushels per acre to the yield of 
wheat used in ' most moderate quantity, and in 
all kinds of grain s more ear and less straw. 
Mr. George Sinclair obtained at Woburn, on plots 
of 36 square feet, at the rate of 70 to 95 bushels 
of wheat per acre, by the use of salt mixed with 
other manures. It is found equally beneficial to 
pasture as well as root crops, sweetening all vege- 
