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mav remain for a few hours, after which turn them 

 into a dry pasture. This treatment may be re- 

 peated two or three times, always observing to 

 keep the house clean, and adding a little more 

 quick lime before putting them in. 



The foot must be often dressed, and the sheep 



kept as much as possible upor dry land. Those 



animals that are diseased should be kept separate 



from the flock, £ i the disorder is very infectious. 



Prevention ard cure of the foot-rot in sheep. 



On suspected grounds, constant and careful ex- 

 amination ought to take place; and when any fis- 

 sures or cracks, attended with heat, make their 

 appearance, apply oil of turpentine eind common 

 brandy. This, in general, produces a very bene- 

 ficial, effect, but where the disease has been long 

 seated, and becomes, in a manner, confirnied — 

 after cleaning the foot, and paring away the infec- 

 ied parts, recourse is had to caustics, of which, 

 the best seem to be sulphuric acid, and the nitrate 

 of mercury. After this, pledgets are applied, the 

 foot bound up, and the animal kept in a clean, dry 

 situation, until i^s recovery is eflTected. 



But it often happens, where the malady is in- 

 veterate, that the disease refuses to yield to any, 

 or all of the above prescriptions. 



The following mode of treatment, however, 

 if carefully attended to, may be depended upoji 

 as a certain cure. Whenever the disease makes 

 its appearance, let the foot be carefully examined, 

 and the diseased part well washed, and pared as 

 nigh as p Ksible, not to make it bleed; and let the 

 floor of t; e house, where the sheep are confined, 

 be strewi three or four inches thick with quick 

 lime, hot ffom the kiln; and the sheep, after hav- 



