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fences, or extirpation. One jumper will soon teach 
the trick to a whole flock, and if one by chance is 
bought in, it should be immediately hoppled or 
killed. The last is by far the surest and safest 
remedy. 
Salt. —Salt, in my judgment, is indispensable to 
the health of sheep, particularly in the summer— 
and I know' not a flock master among the hundreds, 
nay, thousands with whom I am acquainted, who 
differs with me in this opinion. It is common to 
give it once a week while the sheep are at grass. 
It is still better to give them free access to salt 
at all times, by keeping it in a covered box, 
open on one side. A. large hollow' log, with holes 
cut along the side, for the insertion of the heads of 
the sheep, will make a respectable substitute. A 
sheep having free access to salt, at all times, will 
never eat too much, and it will take its supply 
when and in what quantities nature demands, in¬ 
stead of eating voraciously at stated periods, as in¬ 
termediate abstinence will stimulate it to do. When 
fed but once a week, it is better to have a stated 
day, so that it will not be forgotten, and it is well 
to lay the salt on flat stones, though if laid in little 
handfuls on the grass, very little will be lost. 
Tar. —This is supposed by many to form a very 
healthful condiment for sheep. The nose of the 
sheep is smeared with it, and it is licked and swal¬ 
lowed as the natural heat of the flesh, or that of the 
weather, causes it to trickle down over the nostrils 
and lips. Others, suffering the flock to get unusu¬ 
ally salt hungry, place tar upon flat stones, or in 
troughs, and then scatter salt on it, so that both 
6hall be consumed together. Applied to the nose, 
in the nature of a cataplasm, I have no doubt that 
it is advantageous in catarrhs—and put on the same 
place, at the proper periods, it may perhaps, by its 
odor, repel the visitations of the fly, ((Estris ovis,) 
the eggs of which produce the “grub in the head.” 
As a medicine, it may be valuable, and even as a 
detergent , in the case specified, but as a condiment 
simply for a perfectly healthy animal, I confess I 
have no confidence in its utility. 
Water. —Water is not indispensable in the sum¬ 
mer pastures, the dews and the succulence of the 
feed answering as a substitute. But my impression 
is decided that free access to water is advantageous 
to sheep, particularly to those having lambs ; and 
I should consider it a matter of importance on a 
sheep farm, to arrange the pastures, if practicable, 
so as to bring w T ater into each of them. 
Shade. —No one who has observed with what 
eagerness sheep seek shade in hot weather, and 
how they pant and apparently suffer when a hot 
sun is pouring down on their nearly naked bodies, 
will doubt that, both as a matter of humanity and 
utility, they should be provided, during the hot 
summer months, with a better shelter than that af¬ 
forded by a common rail fence. Forest trees are 
the most natural and best shades, and it is as con¬ 
trary to utility as it is to good taste to strip them 
entirely from the sheep walks. A strip of stone 
wall or close board fence on the south and west 
sides of the pasture, will form a passable substitute 
for trees. But in the absence of all these, and of 
buildings of any kind, a shade can be cheaply con¬ 
structed of poles and brush, in the same manner 
as the sheds of the same materials for winter shel¬ 
ter. 
Cold Storms, after Shearing. —These sometimes 
destroy sheep, in this latitude, soon after shearing 
—particularly the delicate Saxons. I have known 
forty or fifty perish out of a single flock, from one 
night’s exposure. The remedy, or rather the pre¬ 
ventive, is to house them, or in default of the neces¬ 
sary fixtures to effect this, to drive them into 
dense forests. I presume, however, this would be 
a calamity of rare occurrence in the “sunny south.” 
Sun Scald —Might be more common. When 
sheep are sheared close in very hot weather—have 
no shade in their pastures—and particularly where 
they are driven immediately considerable distance 
or rapidly, over burning and dusty roads, their 
backs are so scorched by the sun that the wool 
comes off. It is not common, how'ever here. You 
may see one such in a flock of a hundred. Let 
alone, the matter is not a serious one, but the ap¬ 
plication of refuse lard to the back will accelerate 
the cure, and the starting of the wool.— Randall's 
Sheep Husbandry in the South. 
CLOTHES AND WOOL-DRYING MACHINE. 
A Machine has been in use for some time, in 
England, but little larger than a good sized tub, in 
which clothes of any kind, wool, or other materials 
may be placed, and, after a few turns of the ma¬ 
chine, are rendered almost dry. The following 
description of it has been handed us by one of our 
correspondents, who has seen it in operation. 
None nave been brought to this country to our 
knowledge; but from their great saving of time, 
labor &c., &c, we think the improvement a valua¬ 
ble one. We should be happy to aid any of our 
friends in procuring one, should they wish it:- 
Within the case, are two open or spare boxes, 
revolving on an axis, into which the clothes are 
thrown, dripping wet, from the wash tub, whether 
of linen, cotton, or woolen, whether wearing ap¬ 
parel, house linen, blankets, counterpanes, or what 
not; when by the working of the machine five or 
six minutes, which requires very little strength, a 
current of atmospheric air is produced, and a cen¬ 
trifugal pressure created sufficiently to discharge 
the water so completely from the articles in these 
boxes, that fifteen minutes exposure to the air ren¬ 
ders them fit for the ironing board! 
On further inquiry of those who had it in use, I 
found it gave universal satisfaction : indeed, the 
saving to the clothing and the economy in fuel, 
(where drying closets were in use,) is so great, 
tnat not only large public establishments arid pri¬ 
vate families have adopted them, but laundresses, in 
the vicinity of cities and large towns are willing to 
meet the expense of purchasing these machines j 
and they feel amply paid for the outlay, by the 
saving they make in time, labor, and fuel. 
Machines on a large scale are got up for manu¬ 
facturers, as by their use, all kinds of scoured 
wool, woolen clothes, baizes, flannels, blankets, &c. 
&c., can be dried in the short space of six minutes, 
leaving only sufficient moisture to work and finish 
off the goods. Carpet makers and calico printers, 
also, find these machines of the greatest value ia 
expediting their work. 
