188 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

APPENDIX. No, XIV.

CURE OF DISEASES IN CORN AND CATTLE.

SMUT IN WHEAT.

The following receipt for preventing the smut in wheat, has been pra¢tised these twelve years past.

Take twenty-eight gallons of water, boil ina few gal- Jons of it one pound of arsenick, then mix all together, and steep your wheat in it for six or eight hours; when taken out, mix well with fresh lime as usual. The wheat should be put through a riddle, and what swims at top skimmed off,

FOR THE ROT IN SHEEP.

Take five quarts of boiling water, pour it upon a hand- ful of rue chopped small, and cover down the tea thus made for ten or twelve hours. Then strain it off and add thereto as much salt as will make it swim an egg new laid. Add to it a lump of bole armoniac as big as a pullet’s egg, and double that quantity of chalk, both well pounded before they are mixed with the tea; when well incorpo- rated add half a pound of flour of brimstone. The whole well mixed, is a sufficient drink for a score of large pasture sheep. To each sheep, after fasting four or five hours, give half a pint of the mixture ina small horn in three horns full, letting it rest, to take breath and cough, a minute between each; for want of which many have been killed in the operation. Three drinks have been given in various years in the months of September and October, at the distance of a week between each drink, with great