When I was a boy, and the sheep did that, we thought that they had colds in their heads, and used to rub tar on their noses.

We knew nothing about the fly then, but the tar cured them, and is just what I use now.

Two or three times a month during hot weather, we put a few drops of it on the nose of every sheep in the flock." "I suppose farmers are like other people, and are always finding out better ways of doing their work, aren't they, uncle ?" said Miss Laura.
"Yes, my child.

The older I grow, the more I find out, and the better care I take of my stock.

My grandfather would open his eyes in amazement, and ask me if I was an old women petting her cats if he were alive, and could know the care I give my sheep.