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The new farmer's calendar : or monthly remembrancer for all kinds of country business ; comprehending all the material improvements in the new husbandry with the management of live stock, inscribed to the farmers of Great Britain / by a farmer and breeder [i. e. J. Lawrence]
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' ed, is obviously incurable. Saintfoin, burnet, or 18, With::;°. \ Jucern-hay, straw, green broom, pine-tops, Jjuni- North,:

bi per, worm-wood, the mints, thyme, sage, rue, car-

wpe duus; with ground-malt, pease, or oats, and bran, tnd is or chaff, in which may be mixed bay, or com- he me: mon salt, willow, or oak-bark, according to symp-

toms, the animals scouring, or otherwise, are the sof the remedies. High-fed, and tampered tups, should tof the have, occasionally, their water impregnated with 5 woth purging salts, and mashes, or scalded bran. The 1 sheep. disease called the sLoop, arising from too full and ome off intemperate feeding, is plainly to be remedied by p acure moderate retrenchment, bleedings, and, if any, by yeath, cooling aperient medicines.. In the GOGGLES;:' So e rot fatal, sometimes, in Dorsetshire, I should take the 1eris, whole flock up from their pastures, and change deer, their food, giving them such food and medicine, as on the the symptoms seemed to indicate. The rED-wa+ 5 and TER Is another termination of the dropsy, distin- ng up guished from the rot. It is sometimes epidemic: + and, the most certain symptom jis the. colour of the hep. urine. Full-aged sheep most liable. The causes, fit sudden transition from poor to high keep, eating * gat great quantities of washey, faint grass; but, more shea particularly from winter turnip-feeding, without sade dry meat.Turnips, from their watery nature, are ¥ a our worst winter-food for sheep. Remedy 7Re- tl move from pasture, purge and cleanse with nitre

The and sulphur, either dry, in bran, or in solution with boiling-water, which may be infused in the sheeps

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i drink; or tar-water, infusion of madder,&c. after-

ee) is I|-° e di ai wards, the dry regimen, as in the rot. Bleeding ai}; e

eH generally improper. In an immoderate flow of

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