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a gallon of water. This will remove the fetor, and tendency 

 to sloughing and mortihcation, which are the too frequent 

 attendants on foot-rot. The muriate or butyr of antimony 

 must then be resorted to, and by means of a swab, applied 

 to every denuded part ; lightly where the surface has a 

 healthy appearance, and more severely where fungous gran- 

 ulations have been cut ofT, or there are small granulations 

 springing up. There is no application comparable to this. 

 It is effectual as a superficial caustic ; and it so readily com- 

 bines with the fluids belonging to the parts to which it is 

 applied, that it quickly becomes diluted, and comparatively 

 powerless, and is incapable of producing any deep or cor- 

 roding mischief. The change of color in the part will ac- 

 curately show to what portions it has been applied, and what 

 effect has been produced. 



" If the foot has been in a manner stripped of its horn, and 

 especially, if a considerable portion of the sole has been 

 removed, it may be expedient to wrap a little clean tow round 

 the foot, and to bind it tightly down with tape, the sheep be- 

 ing removed to a straw yard, or some enclosed place, or to 

 a dryer pasture. This last provision is absolutely necessary 

 when the sheep is again turned out ; for if the foot is ex- 

 posed to the original cause of disease, the evil will return 

 under an aggravated form. 



" The foot should be dressed every day ; each new separa- 

 tion of horn removed ; and every portion of fungous submit- 

 ted to the action of the caustic, with a degree of severity 

 proportioned to the necessity of the case. The new horn 

 should likewise be examined. If it appears to be healthy 

 and tolerably firm, nothing should be done to it ; but if it is 

 soft and spongy, the caustic must be lightly applied. The 

 sooner the bandage can be removed, and the sheep turned into 

 some upland or thoroughly dry pasture, the better it will be 

 for the foot, and the health of the animal generally. 



" The sheep that has been attacked by foot-rot should not 

 be suffered to rejoin his companions while there is the slight- 

 est discharge from any part of the hoof, inasmuch as the dis- 

 ease is highly infectious." 



The following recipes for foot-rot have been used success- 

 fully by American sheep-breeders : 



By Major Grant, of Walpole, N. H. : — 4 oz. blue vitriol, 

 2 oz. verdigris to a junk bottle of urine. The same has been 

 adopted by others with success. 



