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Perhaps the worst feature about this disease is that 

 children and sometimes adults frequently take it from 

 the horse, calf or dog. 



Grooming utensils, clothing, harness, etc., often con- 

 vey the parasites from one animal to another. I be- 

 lieve that at least 10 per cent, of the horses that are 

 brought here from the west, become affected with ring- 

 worm before they have been here a year. 



Treatment. The treatment for ringworm in horses is 

 usually not a very difficult matter, yet there are some 

 cases that are unusually obstinate. In most cases a few 

 applications once a day of DR. HEARD'S MANGE CURE 

 will be sufficient to completely destroy the parasite. It 

 should be used full strength, by rubbing a little of the 

 salve into the spot with the fingers. In a fe^ days the 

 young hairs will be seen sprouting out of the skin. 

 This is the proof of cure. If the parasite has burrowed 

 down into the hair sheaths and sebaceous follicles, it 

 will be more difficutt to get at the spores, and the dis- 

 ease will persist longer and will require a longer treat- 

 ment, sometimes for 2 or 3 weeks. But the important 

 point is to persist in the treatment without intermission 

 until the parasite is destroyed which it will certainly 

 be, no matter how severe the case, if the daily applica- 

 tion of the mange cure is steadily continued. The treat- 

 ment for calves is the same as for horses. 



For dogs the mange cure should be applied twice a 

 day by dissolving a tablespoonful in a pint of warm 

 water and rubbing in with a brush. After the first 

 week, once a day will be sufficient. It should be re- 

 membered, however, that in dogs the disease is very 

 persistent, on account of the spores being deeply imbed- 

 ded in the skin. The treatment will sometimes have to 



