The diseases of sheep explained and described by Clok Henry

Author:Clok, Henry. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Sheep-Diseases. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger
Published: 1868-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

DISEASES OF SmXP. to

weak and not in all cases effieieot. The best wash or bath that I have applied during twenty years with the most saU£lactory resiilts consists of the following: Sis pounds of burnt, unslaeked lime must be slacked by sprinkling water upon it in a proper vesel, to which six pounds of potash and ten quarts of water are to be added: this mixture must be boiled and well stirred for about an hour. When this lye has been boiled suSeiently, eight pounds of pine oil and two quarts of tar must be added and well stirred into the same. In another and larger vessel twenty poumls of tobacco-leaves must be boOed in one hundred and thirty qu:Lr:< of water for two or three hours, after which this de-0.v::.'n is to be thrown into a large tub (^the tobacco-leaves* are thrown away as worthle:ss). To this decoction the above-describevl lye is to be added, and both must be well stirred and mixeil together. The remedy is then ready, the quantity being su^eient for one hundred sheep. It must be applied in the foUowing manner: The sheep must be laid sideways upon a board of saifieient size, one assistant holding all four \eg^ of the animal, another assistant pressing its head down and parting the wool lengthwise 6om the ear to the upper part of the hind leg, the parting line remaining about three or four inches distant along the middle of the back. Another assistant applies the lye or wash vwhieh must be of a temperature of about 110^ or 120^ Fahr^iheit, or warm enough to su£fer the hand to touch the same) by means of a sponge or bottle along the parting liue, so that the fluid will flow uito the separated fleece. The animal must then be turned over and the lye applied in the same manner upon the other side. After this the animal must be put upon its feet, the wool parted straight along the middle of the back, beginning at the neck and ending at the tail. A quart of lye is sufficient for each unshorn sheep. The part of the sk va covered with

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