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CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVK STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



not to wash them at all. When clean, apply casmoline, petrolina, arnica 

 jelly, carbolic salve, or an ointment made of lard and pounded alum in 

 equal parts. Any of these may he applied, both when coming in and when 

 going out. If they get very bad, give him a few days rest. If proud flesh 

 springs up in the cracks, burn it down with bui-nt alum. If necessary 

 to rest the horse for them, give him a tcaspoonful of saltpetre in the 

 feed morning and night for three or four days. 



Prevention. — Never wash the feet and legs in cold or wet weather, say 

 after November 1st, till April. It is good for them to be washed in warm 

 weather ; it softens the dry, hard hoofs, and cools off the horse when 

 heated ; but it is objectionable in cold weather. When coming in from 

 cold slush and mud, dry and (tlean the feet and legs thoroughly. 



VI, Grease. 



Grease is the name given to a disease of the lower jjartsof the legs that 

 seems to be ascgravated scratches, ])ut it is entirely distinct from 



FIRST SYMPTOM OF GREASE. 

 Scratching one leg with the other foot. 



FIRST STAGE OF CONFIRMED GREASE. 

 EXUDATION. 



scratehes. Scratches lies in the upper or cuticular layer of the skin, 

 and grease is inflammation of the deeper layers. It is so called from the 

 nature of the discharge, which is profuse, and greasy in appearance. It 

 has a very offensive odor. 



Causes. — Neglected scratches often runs into grease, but there must 

 be other conditions favorable — impure blood, tendency to surfeit, hide- 

 bound and general bad condition. It is just as likely to appear in warm 

 xv^eather, when it is the result of surfeit, as it is to appear in cold 

 weather, when it results from neglected scratches. 



How to know it. — The legs are swollen to the knees and hocks, and 

 an offensive, greasy matter is oozing from the pores. When bad they 

 are so sore as to cause considerable lameness. The discharge comes at 

 much, and often more, from above the fetlocks as from below, and 



