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thereby the pain, retard the cure, and are expensive and 

 difficult to apply. 



The only aim of the treatment being to lay bare the 

 diseased, suppurating surfaces, and to destroy the infectious 

 matter on them, the remedy which accomplishes this with 

 the least possible disagreeable secondary effects is evidently 

 the best. 



For this purpose chloride of lime (bleaching salt) is 

 without exception the best, because it destroys the infectious 

 matter of the foot rot, like all other animal contagions, 

 in a wonderfully rapid and. certain' manner. The latest 

 experience in the use of chloride of lime places it at the 

 head of all remedies against the disease. I myself cured 

 nine large flocks in different places so rapidly and easily by 

 its use that I was surprisecJ, as no other remedy had before 

 afforded me such good results. 



Giinther, the vice-director of the Hanover School for 

 Veterinary Science, has made known an excellent way of 

 curing a flock suffering from foot rot by means of chloride 

 of lime, and I will describe the essential points of his 

 method here : 



After removing all the sick sheep from the flock, it is 

 possible and even probable that some of the remaining ones 

 are already infected, although they do not show the disease, 

 and that some of the virus adheres to their hoofs. This 

 virus is destroyed by chloride of lime In the following way: 

 A crib or long trough is filled to the height of six inches 

 with cold water, into which one pound of chloride of lime 

 is poured for every pail of water. A hurdle is then made 

 of the crib by fencing in the sides, and the suspected sheep 

 are forced to go through the water in it, wlych can easily 

 be done. The virus which may cling to the hoofs, and 

 which has not yet had time to act, is destroyed in this way. 

 If the hoofs of the sheep are very dirty, they should first 



