ground being tainted with the dung of the sheep, The costive braxey is merely the colic from obstructed intestines. The watery braxey, I suppose to be the red water, since it arises from the usual cause, attended with a symptom common enough here, supPRESSION OF URINE. I have already given a caution against the use of turpentine and other strong diuretics in this case, since it must be extremely improper to stimulate the kidnies to a still larger secretion of urine, when the bladder is already bursting full, and the sphincter so strained and paralized, as to be totally incapable of ejection. The shortest and safest course is to puncture the bladder, without wounding the guts, and so draw off the urine, covering and healing the wound.

PRESCRIPTIONS. For the SCAB or any eruption on the skin. Strong mercurial unction, one fourth of the weight of turpentine, mix well and make into an ointment, using if necessary oil of turpentine. Separate the wool and make a line from the head to the tail, drawing the finger dipped in the ointment along the skin. Same on the shoulders, thighs, and various parts of the body, wherever the humour appears particularly. In mild and dry weather there is no danger of cold from this ointment, but in bad weather the sheep should be housed. It is probably unsafe to trust infected sheep in the flock, on the strength of their having been anointed. Or the sublimate ointment-boil a quarter of a pound of tobacco in two quarts of water, dissolve in it half an ounce of corrosive sublimate, add two gills of spirit of turpentine and train-oil, bottle for use. From Veul. For the tobacco and sulphur ointment, probably equally efficacious with any, and unattended with danger, see p. 606. It should be remembered, that unless the unction come in contact

with the skin, it will be ineffectual, and it is ever far more certain, to wash the sheep first in a good ley, and scrape the scurf from its skin, and then to anoint. SCAB WATER. Boil, or steep for several days, stirring often, one pound of tobacco, and one pound of sulphur in two gallons of brine, or stale urine, add oil of turpentine. SHEEP-LICE, TICKS or FAGGS. Steep in a tub two pounds of arsenic, and four pounds of softsoap, in thirty gallons of water, dip the lambs, taking care to keep their heads above water. Press the wool, and catch the liquor for future use, in a spaře tub. This quantity serves forty lambs. Used and approved by T. W. Coke, Esq. of Holkham and Lord Somerville. The sheep thus dressed should be kept from rain a day or two. To drive away the FLY. Ointment of coarse aloes, oil of turpentine and black soap, , boiled together. Smear lightly the coats of the sheep. MAGGOTS should be carefully scraped from 'the sore, to which may be applied turpentine and brandy mixed or sublimate water and oil of turpentine, shook together in a bottle, and dropped into the wound. To make the water, dissolve half an ounce of corrosive sublimate in two quarts of water. without breaking the wool, pick out the maggots, and shake down white lead powdered, upon the wounds. BALSAM FOR GREEN WOUNDS. Best turpentine four ounces, succotrine aloes and myrrh one ounce each, brandy one quart, cork up, and let the bottle stand in a moderate heat a week or two, then strain, and keep close corked for use.

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SWINE.

DID my skill in the diseases of hogs, hold proportion with the losses I have suffered therefrom, I should, I will venture to say, be the most notable pig-doctor in Britain. Unfortunate however both ways, I know very little of the matter, Of all patients, these are the worst, and you may as well doctor or drench the devil as a pig. The old writers and their followers give a long list of the diseases of pigs, with prescriptions for the cure, and as far as I am able to discover, knew no more of the matter than myself. Swine are really subject to Pox OR MEASLES, BLOOD-STRIKING, STAGGERS, QUINSEY, INDIGESTION, CATARRH, PERIPNEUMONEY, AND INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS, CALLED HEAVINGS. When sick pigs will eat, they will take medicines in their wash, when they will not eat, I have never found any help for them. As aperients, cleansers, and alteratives, sulphur, antimony, and madder are our grand specifics, and they are truly useful. As cordials and tonics, I know no better than treacle and strong beer, in warm wash, and good peas and pollard. In the measles, sulphur, &c. and if the patients require it, cordials now and then. In staggers, bleeding, fresh air, and perhaps nitre. In catarrh, &c. warm bed and warm cordial wash, same in quincy, or inflammation of the glands in the throat. If external suppuration appear likely, discharge the matter when ripe, and dress with tar and brandy, or the balsam above. The heavings or unsoundness of the lungs in pigs, like the unsoundness of the liver in lambs, I have sometimes found to be hereditary.

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know of no remedy. This disease in pigs is often the consequence of colds from wet lodging, or of hasty feeding in a poor state; in a certain stage it is highly inflammatory, and without remedy. Inunction with train oil, and the internal use of it, have been sometimes thought beneficial. For indigestion, see p. 454.

SUPPLEMENT to Ox-LABOUR, p. 192. The premium was this year adjudged to John Billingsley, Esq. Ashwick Grove, Somerset, by the Bath Society, for the greatest quantity of work done by neat cattle only, from January 1st to December 1st, 1804. Mr. Billingsley pursued the untried measure of setting out his ploughwork by the acre, and within eleven months, ploughed with the two-furrow plough and eight oxen, five hundred and thirty statute acres of land, the expense amounting to four shillings and ten pence per acre.

Lord Somerville declined the contest for the above prize, but presented the Society with a detailed account of his ox-labour for the last year, the substance of which is as follows. The actual quantity of land ploughed within the year, at Fitzhead, nine hundred and fifty-five acres and a half, but reducing the cartage upon the road, also performed by oxen, to the labour of acres ploughed, the whole would amount to full one thousand acres, which were worked by twelve oxen, from four to six years old, four to a two-furrow plough, with a man and a boy. Same to a waggon to draw lime, coals, &c. making on the whole one hundred and sixty-seven days work. The ploughing generally deep. Fifty-seven acres in autumn, ploughed, manured, and sowed, in three weeks, though the weather unfavourable, and the land close and heavy. The last nine acres were ploughed, dragged, sowed, and harrowed, in one day. Only three light-horses kept, and but one acre of the whole ploughed by

horses as a trial. The bulls laboured in turn.

In nineteen years, Lord Somerville has not lost an ox, or broke a yoke or team by sickness, or accident, or injured the health or improvement of any by labour; and it is his Lordship's opinion, and that of the committee of the Society sent to examine the state of his husbandry, that working neat cattle, between the period of three and six years of age, do actually gain, after the rate of twenty per cent. yearly.

SUPPLEMENT TO FINE WOOL IMPROVEMENT, p. 391. On a most ample discussion of the subject, by an uncommonly numerous meeting of the members of the Bath Society, consisting of eminent agriculturists and manufacturers, the premium was adjudged to Lord Somerville, for his sheep and wool husbandry; the chairman, Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq. being requested to convey to his Lordship, in the handsomest terms possible, the unanimous thanks of a very numerous and most respectable meeting.