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wash instead of a dry powder, the formula of the late Mr. Grove, which 
has been used by many in this vicinity and is known to be perfectly ef¬ 
ficacious, may be followed. It is this. Blue vitriol, four ounces, ver¬ 
digris (Acetate of copper) two ounces, dissolved in a junk bottle of urine. 
No one, however, who is conversant with the materia medica, will be in¬ 
clined to regard the verdigris or the solvent as imparting anything to 
the value of this prescription. A saturated solution of blue vitriol in 
water, that is, about four ounces to a pint, there is scarcely a doubt will 
be equally efficacious, if not more so, in consequence of being free from 
any extraneous matter. 
The essential feature in the treatment of this disease is, that every 
part of the sore be touched with blue vitriol or some caustic analagous 
to it. In order to insure its application to the whole extent of the dis¬ 
eased surface, it is indispensable that the hoof should be cut away so 
far that this surface will be fully exposed and can be got at with facili¬ 
ty. A single application of the caustic in most instances, cures the dis¬ 
ease. After a week has elapsed, however, some of the sheep will be 
observed to be still lame. The worst cases are so inveterate, with the 
fungous granulations of the sore so exuberant, that a second and in in¬ 
stances a third application of the remedy is required. And it is not un¬ 
likely that the feet of some of the lame sheep when they come to be 
examined the second time will be found to be entirely healed and per¬ 
fectly well to appearance ; but on carefully paring off more of the hoof, 
the operator finds some of the old sore still existing, which had not been 
reached by the knife and the caustic in the first instance. He thereup¬ 
on proceeds again to cut away the hoof sufficiently to expose all the re¬ 
maining extent of the sore, and applies the vitriol to it as at first. 
This course of treatment must be perseveringly followed up so long 
as the slightest indication of lameness is perceptible in any individual 
of this diseased lot. And they should thereafter be continued apart from 
the other sheep until the proprietor is perfectly sure that there is no vestige 
of the disease lurking among them to again break forth and spread 
through the flock. Thus the disease may be infallibly eradicated. 
A person thoroughly experienced in this disease, but now out of the 
wool growing business and therefore disinterested in this matter soys, 
if he was purchasing a flock of sheep, he would be willing to take dis¬ 
eased ones for twenty-five cents per head less than what sound ones are 
worth, so certain is he that every one can be cured, at an amount of 
care and expense equivalent to that sum. 
159. Black-foot or fouls .—There is an opinion somewhat current 
among us, that there is in addition to the foot-rot nnolher species of 
