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trated beneath the hoof on each toe, causing it to be separated in each 

 instance from the tissues 'beneath. A profuse discharge was constantly 

 exuding from the point of inoculation, in which the long threads of the 

 necrosis bacillus could constantly be demonstrated. 



Sheep No. 102 was inoculated on the foot by the application of a mixed 

 bouillon culture that had been taken directly from a diseased foot and 

 grown in an incubator for forty-eight hours, at a temperature of 35° C. 

 Foot-rot was well established in the foot by the sixth day following, and 

 Its course was rapid and acute. 



Goat No. 71 was successfully inoculated by having the skin of its 

 interdigital space bared by the clipping off of the hair and the exposed 

 surface then smeared with mixed bouillon culture of the third genera- 

 tion. As a result of this procedure the disease made itself manifest 

 on the ninth day, and followed a typical course through the various 

 stages of inflammation, spreading ulceration and necrosis. 



ECOXOMIC IMPORTANCE. 



Throughout the middle west, where packing houses are located In 

 many of the larger cities, the sheep-feeding industry has attained large 

 proportions. At points situated within easy reach of the more important 

 slaughtering centers stations have been established for the purpose of 

 finishing off those sheep and lambs that have been shipped from the ranges 

 farther west before they had reached a sufficient degree of fatness to admit 

 their being dressed to advantage. The stations are located within easy 

 reach of several of the more important stock yards, thus enabling the 

 owner to take advantage of a favorable turn in market quotations, or to 

 supply any shortage that may occur in the receipts of a particular grade of 

 sheep at the yards with which he is associated. 



There are several of these places with a capacity of over 50,000 sheep 

 each, and one near Chicago that can accommodate 80,000, as will be 

 seen by the following list of feeding stations, the total of which shows that 

 683,000 sheep can be finished for market at one time. This list does not 

 Include the vast numbers of animals that are fed in the feeding stations 

 of the far west, nor those in bunches of 500 to 3,000, by private in- 

 dividuals throughout the central northern states. 



Partial list of sheep-feeding stations in the United States. 



Capacity 



Loeatiun Capacity 



Grand Island, Nchr- 



Xorfolk. N>l.r 



Xickersiin, Kans 



St. Marys. Kans 



Hanover, Kans 



Ccilnmbiis, Xebr 



^'alley, Xebr 



Fremiinf. Xel)r 



Stoekdalp. Ill 



Lafox, 111 



Montsromerv, 111 



Kirkland, 111 



