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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 193, 12 August 1878, Page 4

The following rules are given by an American paper for the care of sheep. — 1. Keep sheep dry under foot with clean. litter. This is far more necessary than roofing them. Never let them stand or lie in the mud or snow. 2. If a ewe loses her lamb milk her daily for a few days and mix a little alum with her salt. 3. Never frigbteo sheep if possible to avoid it. 4. Separate all weak, thin, or sick sheep in the fall from those that are strong, and give them special care. 5. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once and wash the wound with a healing lotion. If, a leg, is broken bind it with splinters tightly, loosing as the limb swells. 6. If a sheep is lame examine its foot, and clean oub between the hoofs ; if unsound apply tobacco, with blue vitriol boiled in a little water. 7. Shear at once any sheep commenciug to shed its wool, unless the weather is too severe. Keep none but the best, and see that they are properly attended to.