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Another Remedy— Never Known to Fail. —A writer in the Ohio 

 Farmer says: "For foot-rot, here is a cure I have never known to fail: Take 

 carbolic acid and pour it on a piece of copper — an old-fashioned penny will do 

 — let it stand until the acid ceases to act on it. Be sure not to apply till the acid 

 ceases to eat the copper. Keep the copper in all the time. Clean the hoof and 

 apply with a swab. One or two applications will be sufficient." 



Remarks. — He does not say how much acid. Carbolic acid is obtained by 

 druggists in the form of crystals, but is generally kept dissolved in the least 

 dmount of water that will dissolve it. This is the knid lie refers to, and 1 oz. 

 may be put upon 1 cent, and if it eats it all up put in another, so there is some 

 copper still left undissolved is the way to use it; otherwise, as in the above 

 cases, to cleanse off decaying parts of the hoof before applying. But now we 

 come to a 



Preventive of Foot-Rot in Sheep.— A Mr. Karkeek, who is claimed 

 to be good authority, writes to one of the agricultural papers that when the 

 prevalence of wet weather makes it probable that foot-rot may set in, "it is 

 easily prevented by carting a quantity of earth and throwing it up in the form 

 of a mound in the center of the yard attached to the shed, and upon this mound 

 strew small quantities of freshly slacked lime." 



Remarks. — This confirms the general idea that foot-rot is brought on by 

 external causes rather than internal, and hence the idea given in one of the 

 " Short Rules for the Care of Sheep," and that is: " Keep sheep dry under foot 

 with litter," etc. Sheep dearly love rolling, or even hilly, land, and cannot be 

 well kept on low, wet grounds, and especially so if there are no knolls nor 

 elevated dry grounds upon which they can gather themselves to rest and sleep, 

 and hence the advantage of the mound in the yard or litter to keep their feet 

 dry in winter. 



Sheep Ticks, Dip and Other Remedies for.— It is important, 

 soon after shearing sheep, to see that the lambs, especially, are freed from these 

 pests; for after shearing, to get away from the light, and the exposures of the 

 cold, when the old sheep have parted with their covering, the ticks will escape 

 to the lambs, often to such an extent as to stunt their growth, reduce them in 

 flesh, and seriously weaken them by the loss of blood ; when, otherwise, they 

 would be in their best condition. The Hearth and Home gives us the usual 

 strength of the dip necessary to free them when numerous, as follows: "Cheap 

 plug tobacco, 5 lbs., broken up and boiled in 2 pails of water; then 30 gals. 

 I'idcd. will make dip enough for 100 lambs, or 50 sheep. After dipping keep 

 ilicui dry a day or two." 



To dip them have a water-tight box large enough to hold a lamb, or a 

 sheep, if any are to be dipped, so as to entirely cover them with the dip. Ar 

 range a sloping table at the side of the box which will allow all the liquid to 

 run back into it. Then take a lamb by the forelegs with one hand, with the 

 other cover up the mouth and nostrils, let an assistant take the hind legs, and 

 immerse the lamb entirel}', long enough to allow the dip to penetrate the wool, 

 lay the lamb on the sloping table and squeeze out the surplus liquid, and the 

 operation is complete. If this is done every year, it is claimed that ticks will 



