Ingredients
- one quart of whisky
- four ounces of arsenic
- four ounces of 370 the buckeye cook book
- one gallon of water
- two ounces of yellow snuff
- two doses a day
- one sheep walking after
Directions
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Mix one quart of whisky and two ounces of yellow snuff, heat to a blood-heat and inject into each nostril. To cure stretches in sheep. Make a tea of red pepper, and give two doses a day.
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TO CURE FOOT-ROT IN SHEEP,
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As soon as sheep become lame, pass them through a trough contain- ing a warm solution made of four ounces of arsenic, four ounces of
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370 THE BUCKEYE COOK BOOK.
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potash in one gallon of water; boil till dissolved. Keep it about three inches deep so as to cover the feet as the sheep walk through. The trough should be about twenty feet long and just wide enough to admit of one sheep walking after another. This will cure in every instance and a thousand may be run through in one hour.
By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio) ·
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