CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 91 



the bind legs among a number of the calves. They would first jerk up 

 one foot and then the other, or shake the foot as if they wanted to shake 

 off a foreign body, and acted as if they could not place the affected foot 

 to the ground. They would then hobble along a few steps, and walk 

 off moderately well or lie down. When they stood quiet they arched 

 the back and dropped the head. 



Some of them slobbered or frothed at the mouth, and would not eat 

 hay very well. In the course of two or three days they persisted in 

 lying down nearly all the time ; swelling about the coronet tlien be- 

 came apparent, extending as high up as the fetlock, or even higher in 

 some cases, which was attended by great heat and tenderness. 



Soon after this swelling appeared — a very few days — a band around 

 the leg would then appear, the skin becoming contracted, dry, and 

 hard ; next the skin broke and a sore made its appearance. This sore 

 encircled the leg and gradually deepened until complete separation of 

 the limb at one of the joints occurred. The time consumed from the 

 first appearance of the disease until the final dropping off of the dead 

 portion of the limb would be from three to four weeks. In some cases 

 he noticed soreness and ulceration in the clefts between the claws. 

 AVhen he first noticed the jerking up of the feet and limbs he thought 

 it was due to impaction of mud between the claws ; therefore he ex- 

 amined some of the feet, but found no impactions. On the 1st of Jan- 

 uary about 30 head of the calves manifested lameness. All of these 

 calves were fed npon wild hay and shelled corn during the fall and 

 winter. All the medical treatment which these cattle leceived was one 

 application ot muriatic acid around the limb where the line of soreness 

 existed. The described 12 head of yearling calves, and 51 more of the 

 same age, he bought from Mr. J. Davis on the 11th of December, and 

 took them home on the 12th. Mr. Davis had bought these calves from 

 different parties within a radius of 10 miles south and east ofXeosho 

 Falls. 



Leaving Mr. Keith's place, we went to the farm owned by Mr. A. C. 

 Goodrich, which is occupied by Mr. Edward Hindman, who is the over- 

 seer of the stock on the faini. The Goodiich farm is divided from the 

 Keith farm by a i)ublic road running north and south. On the Good- 

 rich farm we saw 20 head of cattle, all of which were two years old and 

 upwar(ls,|which had then lost or would eventually lose one or more feet, 

 or parts of them, and 2 of them were about to lose all their feet. 



In one of these cases the line of demarkation was inches above the 

 fetlock, and in the other 4 inches, while some of them had lost only one 

 claw or one foot at the second joint. All of these cattle presented 

 greater or less discolorations, erosions, or ulcerations on the lips, tongne, 

 or roof of the mouth, and in several the mouth lesions were much more 

 prominent than in any of the Keith cattle. A two-year old red and 

 white steer, which had lost both hind feet at the fetlock joints, pre- 

 sented, upon examination ut' the mouth, brownish yellow-patches on 



