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be followed by disease, which, whether it is called foot-rot or not, 
will be associated with a rotten condition of the foot. 
In the early stage of the disease the cure is easy, and with 
proper care it may always be treated in this stage after the loose 
horn has been properly trimmed. A two per cent, solution of corro- 
sive sublimate is a very good remedy in slight cases, the only objec- 
tion to the use of the agent being its poisonous properties. Carbolic 
acid, one in fifty of water, is safe and effective, and may be used for 
Fiq. 2. — Iiisiile view of one Disrit, showiiiff Advanced Stage of Foot-rot. a. Loose and 
broken hoof, b, Papillated growths (fungoid granulation). 
a flock by the aid of a large trough containing a sufficient quantity 
to allow the animals to be driven through it. 
Various other remedies are used, but the whole subject will be 
dealt with more in detail in a special article. * 
Experiments as to Communicability of Tuberculosis. 
Feeding experiments to test the infectivity of meat and milk 
from tuberculous cattle, such meat and milk being apparently of 
good quality and free from tubercle bacilli, were attended with unex- 
