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lye or washing soda, using a stiff brush to apply the 

 suds; creolin one ounce to the pint of water, or sulfur 

 one to lard eight parts should be well rubbed in daily 

 after the first washing. All harness should be cleansed, 

 currycombs and brushes immersed for a few minutes in 

 boiling water, and the bedding burned if these articles 

 have been used for mangy animals. Hot carbolic lime 

 wash sprayed over the stalls will also be beneficial. That 

 form of manginess affecting the limbs of hairy legged 

 horses commonly termed grease, is also hard to over- 

 come, the same general treatment should be given, for 

 the local application after the washing, the sulfur-kero- 

 sene mixture so much used by heavy horsemen will be 

 found very penetrating and consequently very beneficial. 

 In this form the mange mites commence at the back of 

 the pastern and work up to the knee or hock, affecting 

 the hind limbs generally; there is great itchiness, the 

 horses bite and rub their fetlocks, and often are heard to 

 strike the ground frequently with the foot. Cracks, 

 crusts and thickening of the skin result from this dis- 

 ease. A form of this disease known as scaly legs occurs 

 in poultry, in which cases the legs are swelled and rough- 

 ened in appearance, due to the standing out of the scales, 

 washing with warm soapsuds and the application of cre- 

 olin, kerosene, being careful with the latter, or hen oil 

 (Tilson) a few times will overcome the trouble. 



Lice infest all varieties of farm stock, and make their 

 presence known by the excessive itchiness shown by the 

 stock and the appearance of the parasites and their eggs 

 (nits). The treatment will vary with the animals, if 

 sheep or pigs are affected, the former with a red louse, 



