Preventive treatment. — This may be accomplished 

 in at least three ways, although some persons may consider 

 them too much trouble, namely, by — 



Washing the feet with cold water and putting on a 



bandage. 

 Washing the feet first with hot and then with cold 



water. 

 Using no water, but simply brushing the dirt off the 

 heels with a hard brush. 

 For heels already cracked, but on which no deposit has 

 formed, by which they become indurated and enlarged, the 

 following remedy on that condition of the parts will be 

 found useful. Take of: 



Solution of diacetate of lead - One ounce. 

 Glycerine _ _ _ Eight ounces. 



This has been found an excellent application for Mud 

 Fever or Erythema. In such animals as have horny concre- 

 tions on the heels, they may be continuously pared down 

 with a drawing knife, and then burned with a little caustic. 

 This must not be pursued too far, as their entire removal 

 might be attended with worse consequences, 



GREASE. 



Cause. — This unsightly and diseased condition of the 

 horses' heels differ in many respects from the Scratches or 

 Mud Fever. In the first place this disease has both a con- 

 stitutional as well as a local origin, and in the second instance 

 it rarely, if ever, is found on thoroughbred horses that are 

 well groomed and fed. The class of animals most subject 

 to this condition are coarse bred, heavy-limbed truck horses. 

 Those animals, when well fed and attended to, if allowed 

 to stand idle for hours together in wet and filth, very fre- 

 quently get greasy about the heels. The hind feet are 

 chiefly the ones attacked, as it is more common in the hind 

 than in the fore feet. 



