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A SIMPLE AND EFFECTUAL METHOD 
OF PREVENTING THE DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY 
V/OLVES, 
Communicated by EZRA L^HOMMEDIEUs Vice-President of 
the Society, 
WALTER BRIGGS, a respectable farmer 
in Schoharie, who keeps a large number of sheep, 
informs me that he loses none of them by wolves, 
who are plenty in that part of the country, and can¬ 
not be driven off or destroyed, except by traps. 
He makes an ointment, composed of gun-powder 
and brimstone, powdered floe, and mixed with tar 
and gurry or currier’s oil-^-with this he anoints the 
under part of the throat of the sheep. It must be 
renewed as often as the ointment becomes dry or 
loses its moisture, which will be four or live times 
in a season. He says that he has lost no sheep by 
the wolves since he has been in this practice, and 
has often seen the wolves’ tracks among the sheep’s 
tracks in the fields. He has a parcel of sheep, 
which had been out a number of weeks, and no 
care taken of them, except their necks being anoint¬ 
ed with this ointment, when he w^as informed by 
his neighbor that the sheep were at his house, and 
that early on Sunday morning they came running 
into his door-yard~he looked out of the window, 
and saw a wolf among them, who ran from one 
sheep to another, and jumped on them, but did not 
offer to bite any of themo The sheep were brought 
