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Solution. By this means you ensure thorough treatment ; and, if 

 persevered in, a complete eradication of the disease is the result. 



Having got free from foot-rot, the passing of the flock through 

 the solution twice a-year will completely prevent any new attack- 

 Before adopting this plan Mr. Buttar states his sheep were 

 scarcely ever free from the disease. 



Mr. R. E. TURNBULL used the following recipe for the extensive 

 flocks on the Earl of Carlisle's home farm : 



Dissolve I Ib. of arsenic, 3 Ib. washing soda, and I pint of pure 

 carbolic acid, in 12 gallons of water. 



Have a trough say 16 ft. long, 10 in. wide at the bottom, 14 in. 

 wide at the top, I ft. in depth. Place the trough alongside a wall, 

 and fix hurdles on the side of the trough opposite the wall. Make 

 a pen at one end of the trough in which to collect the sheep to be 

 treated. See that the sheep walk slowly through the trough, and 

 let them pass through twice a-week till cured. 



A simple and effective remedy is to walk the sheep through a 

 trough containing a solution of Cooper's Dipping Powder, one 

 packet to two gallons of water. 



MAGGOTS. 



The old adage "prevention is better than cure," applies with 

 special force to this, in many cases, the shepherd's most trouble- 

 some enemy. If you can only make the fleece distasteful to the 

 fly you will have no maggots. 



A general summer dipping a month after shearing will prac- 

 tically free the flock from attack for the rest of the season. Of 

 course, wounds and abrasures, and wet or manure-stained places 

 on the hinder parts, will lay the animal open to risk, but such 

 can be readily attended to. 



Where this dipping has been neglected, animals struck with 

 maggots should in the early stage be dipped with Cooper's Dip. 

 If the maggots are very bad they should be removed by hand, 



