A sheep will require about one half of the above. _Stimulating Tincture._ Boiling vinegar, 1 pint. Tincture of myrrh, 2 ounces. Powdered capsicum, 2 tea-spoonfuls. _Use._--For external application in putrid sore throat. _Another._ Tincture of camphor, 4 ounces. Oil of cedar, half an ounce. Tincture of capsicum, (hot drops,) 4 ounces. To be rubbed around the throat night and morning. _Stimulating Tincture for Chronic Rheumatism._ Tincture of capsicum, 4 ounces. Oil of cedar, 1 ounce. Oil of wormwood, 1 ounce. Vinegar, half a pint. Goose grease, 1 gill. Mix. To be applied night and morning. The mixture should be kept in a well-corked bottle, and shaken before being used. POULTICES. _Preliminary Remarks._--As oxen, sheep, and pigs are liable to have accumulations of matter, in the form of abscess, resulting from injury or from the natural termination of diseases, it becomes a matter of importance that the farmer should rightly understand their character and treatment. If a foreign substance enters the flesh, the formation of matter is a part of the process by which nature rids the system of the enemy. A poultice relaxing and lubricating will then be indicated. If, however, the foreign body shall have entered at a point where it is impossible to confine a poultice, then the suppurative stage may be shortened by the application of relaxing fomentations, and lastly, by stimulants. It is a law of the animal economy, that, unless there be some obstacle, matter always seeks its exit by an external opening; and it becomes part of our duty to aid nature in her efforts to accomplish this salutary object. Nature requires aid in consequence of the unyielding character of the hide, and the length of time it takes to effect an opening through it. Animals are known to suffer immensely from the pressure a large accumulation of pus makes on the surrounding nerves, &c., and also from the reabsorption of this pus when it cannot readily make its exit. This is not all; for, if pus accumulates, and cannot in due time find an outlet, it produces destruction of the blood-vessels, nerves, and surrounding tissues. These vessels are distributed to the different surfaces; their supply of blood and nervous energy being cut off, they decompose, and in their turn become pus, and their open mouths allow the morbid matter to enter the circulation, and thus poison the blood. Hence it becomes our duty, whenever matter can be distinctly felt, to apply that sort of poultice which will be most likely to aid nature.