522 



Hide Salt and Wireworms. 



The symptoms of this disease are swelling of one of the limbs, 

 usually a hind one, and the formation on the swollen member 

 of small nodules, which burst and discharge matter. In this 

 respect the disease closely resembles ordinary farcy, from which, 

 however, it may be distinguished by microscopic examination 

 of the matter discharged from the sores, or by testing the horse 

 with mallein. 



The disease being of a very contagious character, it is 

 important that it should be detected at an early stage, and the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have, therefore, called the 

 attention of local authorities to the danger which exists in this 

 connection. 



Every horse with a chronic " thick leg " on which sores are 

 present should be suspected of being affected either with 

 " Epizootic Lymphangitis " or with farcy. Horse owners would 

 be well advised to keep a special outlook for the development of 

 such symptoms in the case of horses recently acquired by them, 

 and the Board would be glad to receive early information as to 

 the existence or suspected existence of the disease in any 

 locality. 



Hide Salt and Wireworms. 

 The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries think that it may 

 prove useful to give publicity to the following correspondence 

 between the Secretary of the Board and Mr. S. Rosbotham, one 

 of their Agricultural Correspondents, upon the use of hide salt as 

 a remedy against wireworms. Hide salt, like fish salt, contains 

 a considerable quantity of nitrogen, and it is possible that the 

 good effects of the salt on the crop may be the reason that it is 

 credited with insecticidal properties. It would be interesting to 

 see experiments carried out with it by some of the Agricultural 

 Colleges : — 



" Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 



" 4th March, 1904. 

 " Dear Mr. Rosbotham, — With reference to the conversation 



