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carbolic acid i dr., honey 2 oz., vinegar i pt., water i pt.) ; 

 a lotion for the teats (carbolic \ dr., glycerine 10 oz.) ; and a 

 dressing for the feet (oil of vitriol i oz., water 4 oz., to be 

 applied with a feather after cleaning the space between the 

 hoofs by drawing a cloth through it). After dressing, tie up 

 the feet in a tar bandage. The hind feet are easily dressed 

 if two men raise each separately with a long stout fork handle 

 passed in front of the hock. In dressing the feet, all detached 

 horn should be removed and a poultice applied if inflammation 

 runs high. Soft cold mashes or thinly-sliced or pulped roots 

 are the best food throughout. 



Prevention. — Importation of diseased animals should be 

 sufficiently guarded against. Diseased stock should be rigidly 

 secluded from all but the necessary attendants, who ought to 

 be disinfected on leaving the enclosure. Wild animals, even 

 birds, should be excluded. Every place where the diseased 

 have been should be closed for a winter or disinfected, the 

 milk should be buried in a safe place, or boiled and given to 

 pigs; manure, infected litter, etc., may be burned or disinfected, 

 removed and ploughed under by horses. No diseased animal 

 should be moved until fifteen days after full recovery, and it 

 should first be sponged over with a carbolic acid wash. 



RUSSIAN CATTLE PLAGUE. RINDERPEST. 



A contagious fever of cattle communicable to other rumi- 

 nants, and characterized by a. general congestion of the mucous 

 membranes, but, above all, those of the stomach and intestines, 

 and an excessive growth and shedding of the superficial layers 

 of cells on the skin and mucous membranes. It is only propa- 

 gated by contagion, at least, out of the Kirghiz Steppes and 

 Kherson district in Southern Russia, but spreads further on the 

 air than Aphthous Fever. 



Symptoms. — Incubation lasts about two days until the tem- 

 perature of the body is elevated, or four days until the appear- 



