12 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



Treatment. — ^A laxative (Epsom salts) ; astringenl 

 moutli-wasli (Borax and tincture of myrrh, 1 oz. each ; 

 •water 1 qt., or carbolic acid 1 dr., honey 2 oz., vinegar 1 

 pt., water 1 pt.) ; a lotion for the teats (carbolic acid ^ dr., 

 glycerine 10 oz.) ; and a dressing for the feet (oil of vitriol 

 1 oz., water 4 oz., to be apphed with a feather after clean- 

 ing the space between the hoofs by drawing a cloth 

 through it). After dressing, tie up the feet in a tar band- 

 age. 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 inflam- 

 mation 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 ani- 

 mals, 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 ia a safe place, or 

 boiled and given to pigs, manure, infected litter, etc., may 

 be burned, or disinfected, removed and plowed under by 

 horses. No diseased animal should be moved until fifteen 

 days after fuU recovery, and it should first be sponged 

 over with a carbolic acid wash. 



BUSSIAN CATTLE PLAGUE. EINDEEPEST. 



A contagious fever of cattle communicable to other rumi- 

 nants and characterized by a general congestion of the 

 mucous membranes, but, above aU, those of the stomach 

 and intestines, and an excessive growth and shedding of 

 the superficial layers of ceUs on the skin and mucous mem- 

 ''r,^^- .^*/^ °'^'y propagated by contagion, at least, out 

 of the Kirghiz Steppes and Kherson district in Southern 

 Eussia, but spreads further on the air than Aphthms Fever 



bymptoms. Incubation lasts about two days nntU th« 



