. £ ®6 3 
remedy. The sheep should in this case be kept 
dry for some days ; this has also the advantage of 
freeing them from liee or ticks. When the sheep 
are sheared a good washing with soap suds, and a 
weak decoction of tobacco, will free them from the 
seeds of the scab. It is thought essential not only to 
the health of the sheep in Spain, but to the beauty 
©f the wool, that they should have a full supply of 
-salt. While I am speaking of the maladies of 
sheep, let me mention one that occasions more de¬ 
struction among them, than all the others put to¬ 
gether—The bite of dogs. This animal is an ab¬ 
solute nuisance in the old settled counties, howev¬ 
er useful he may be in the new ones. Nothing 
can he more vexatious, than after a man has labor*, 
ed for years to have an irhproved Hock, to see them 
destroyed in one night : yet this has happened to 
me more than oiice, sometimes from my own dogs^ 
and sometimes from those of others. The remedy 
for this evil lays with the legislarture ; a heavy tax 
upon all dogs that were seen without a collar, con¬ 
taining the master’s name on a brass plate, and per¬ 
mission to kill them ; together with a light tax up¬ 
on all dags furnished with collars, would raise aeon- 
mderable revenue^ and diminish their niimbei% The 
master should in every case be answerable for the 
damage done by his dogs. Without this few peo¬ 
ple wdU be at the expense of glOO for a ram, be¬ 
sides the risk; and trouble of importing him. You 
gentlemen, will jCidge how far, a matter so material 
