A VERY GOOD MEANS TO INCREASE THE
GROWTH OF WOOL ON SHEEP, AND TO
PREVENT DISEASE AMONG THEM.William Ellis, in his excellent work on the English manner of raising
sheep, relates the following: I know a tenant who had a flock of sheep that
produced an unusual quantity of wool. He informed me that he was in the
habit of washing his sheep with buttermilk just after shearing them, which
was the cause of the unusual growth of wool; because it is a known fact that
buttermilk does not only improve the growth of sheep’s wool, but also the
hair of other animals. Those who have no buttermilk may substitute
common milk, mixed with salt and water, which will answer nearly as well
to wash the sheep just sheared. And I guarantee that by rightly applying
this means, you will not only have a great increase of wool, but the sheep-
lice and their entire brood will be destroyed. It also cures all manner of scab
and itch, and prevents them from taking cold.
A WELL-TRIED PLASTER
TO REMOVE MORTIFICATION.Take six hen’s eggs and boil them in hot ashes until they are right hard;
then take the yellow of the eggs and fry them in a gill of lard until they are
quite black; then put a handful of rue with it, and afterward filter it through
a cloth. When this is done add a gill of sweet oil to it. It will take most effect
where the plaster for a female is prepared by a male, and the plaster for a
male prepared by a female.
A GOOD REMEDY FOR
THE POLL-EVIL IN HORSES.Take white turpentine, rub it over the poll-evil with your hand, and then
melt it with a hot iron, so that it runs into the wound. After this take
neatsfoot oil or goose grease and rub it into the wound in the same manner,
and for three days in succession, commencing on the last Friday of the last
quarter of the moon.