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ON THE FOOT-ltOT IN SHEEP. 
they having been large enough to be out of harm’s way, it was 
thrown open. The sheep then got into it, and spent the greater 
portion of the summer-day in its shade. This plantation, although 
on the slope of the hill, is almost continually wet — partly from the 
dung and urine of the sheep, and partly from the rain that falls 
there, and the sun and the wind not being able to penetrate to the 
middle of it to dry it. 
The consequence of the throwing open of the plantation was, 
that the sheep that were pastured in that field were afflicted with 
foot-root. They had never been off the farm, nor had any other 
sheep but those of the same flock been with them. 
Being now accustomed to the pasture, they still are subject to 
the foot-rot, although not so universally, nor in so inveterate and 
destructive a form, and as they grow up they obtain a kind of 
immunity from it ; but every sheep that comes there has it, and 
every lamb that is bred there. The rams that are brought from 
different places, being always examined in order to see whether 
they are free from disease, are no sooner put to the ewes than 
they have the foot-rot, and so badly that it sometimes requires a 
fresh ram to every lot of ewes almost once a week. They come 
quite sound, yet in that little time they get so lame that they are 
not able to walk after the ewes, in order to impregnate them. 
Some persons have had yards spread with lime, into which 
they have driven the infected sheep, and kept them there for a con- 
siderable time. They are said to have derived benefit from this. 
On the farm to which I allude, some of the advertized powders 
were used, which kept the disease from proceeding to any serious 
length ; but the labour of continually dressing them was really 
immense. 
[We thank Mr. Lees for this practical illustration of foot-rot in 
sheep. We ask not whence our knowledge of the truth arrives ] 
It is as valuable when coming from the shepherd as the vete- 
rinary surgeon, and will be as thankfully received. Why is 
not this plantation once more enclosed. The comfort of the 
shelter which it affords is far too dearly purchased. For the 
cure of foot-rot, the shepherd will find all that he wants in the 
butyr of antimony and removal to a drier pasture, and without 
any great expenditure of labour. — Y.] 
