THE WAY TO HANDLE SHEEP.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1180, 20 January 1880, Page 2

THE WAY TO HANDLE SHEEP.

Thers is a right way and a wrong way, a hard way and an easy way, an awk«vard way and a skilful way, to catch and handle sheep. A. great many men wil ; catch the sheep by the wool on the baok with buth hatids, and lift the animal clear from the ground by the wool only. Barbarous ! Let some great giant grasp you by the hair of your head and lift you from tha ground by the hair only ! Would you not struggle and squirm worse than the mute sheep doe * when lifted by the wool ? And would there not be a complaint of a sore head for a week or two ? If you do not believe it try the experiment. » c have slaughtered a great many sheep in years past, and when removing the pelts of such sheep as had been handled by the wool, we never failed to observe that beneath the «kin, wherever the animal has been handled by the wool, blood had settled. In many instances the skin had been separated from the body, so that the inflammation was apparent. We havo known proprietors of Hheep to he so strict in regard to handling them, that they would order a helper from the oremiaes were ha to catch a sheep by the wool or any part of the body, owners of sheep direct their helpers thus : — " vVhen about to catch a sheep, move carefully towards the ono to be taken, until you are sufficiently near to spring quickly and s^ize the boast by both end*<, then pass ono hand round the body, graup the brisket, and lift the sheep clear from the ground. The vool must not be pulled. If the sheep be a hiavy one, lot one hand and wrist be put around the neck and the arm pressed against the leg*." We have alwayn handled Hheep in the manner alluded to. We never grasp the wool. Others seize the sheep by a hind leg, then throw one arm around the body, and take hold of the brisket with one hand. Koth ewes and lambs should never be caught by the hind legs, unless handled with extreme care. When .sheep are han died roughly, enpecially if their wool in pulled, the a jail bruises and injuries will render them more wild and difficult to handle.

The Paris correspondent of 'he Boa on Ooane.', refarria^ to his rec»very from » dangerous illness O»used by near»^i» 8 »y» :— ' I mention thit illness that I may tell >oa bow easily 1 was cure. 1 wab b«nt double. I Cv ul<i not breathe. My physician ordered me to take a fl «t ir m and heat il; as ho as I could bear, pae» d u*)le fold of fiUaael oa tbe p*mfa p .rt •ad move the iroa to and fro on the fltannl, I was oared a> by enchant meiit. My doc or told me that some tme since a professor in one of our oo eges af'er aafferiog come days with neura gia in tbe head, which he himself had t ied to care, sent for th" formar who prescribed a hotfhciron. The nexime the doctor saw the professor, the latter exclaimed, "I had no so ncr a{ plied toe heated iron to my bead than all pain