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J. A. MC CRANK. 
fected herd, to guard against infection from an apparently 
healthy animal which may be actually diseased. Young ani¬ 
mals which are permitted to suck, should receive attention as 
disease bearers. In the severe outbreak of gangrenous mam- 
mitis in ewes, which we have mentioned above, it was 
found that the lambs were suffering from pustular eruptions of 
the nose and lips. The free application of silver nitrate to the 
ulcers and bathing the diseased lips freely with tr. iodine and 
glycerine, equal parts, promptly arrested the mammitis in the 
ewes. This outbreak suggests that in every case we should 
seek for the source of infection and attack it. In ordinary 
mammitis, the general rules for controlling the so-called con¬ 
tagious species, should be applied to the more limited field to 
prevent the affection from spreading from gland to gland. 
SWINE TROUBLES IN CLINTON COUNTY, N, Y. 
By J. A. McCrank, V. S., Plattsburgh, N. Y. 
Read before the New York Slate Veterinary Medical Society, September, 1900 
It has always appeared to me, that according as man’s inge¬ 
nuity lessens labor, by means of electricity, machinery, etc., our 
Divine Master, ever fearful of our falling into sin or becoming 
disobedient to his holy will on account of idleness, furnishes us 
with other grades of labor. Years ago our forefathers, ignorant 
of the advantages of modern methods, were pleased to cut their 
crops with the reaping-hook, thrash it with a flail, and clean 
it with the old-time hand-fan. Our grandmothers hackled, 
spun and wove into linen the flax from the field. Now all this 
work is done by machinery. During those olden times none 
of us have records of our forefathers laying aside the hook or 
the flail to give battle to the Colorado potato-bug, nor of our 
grandmothers leaving the wheel or the loom to save the 
orchards from the raids of the army or tent caterpillar. So 
during those days of hard labor the farmers and hog raisers of 
Clinton County experienced no troubles in raising hogs; so free 
was the hog from disease that 110 attention was paid to its selec- 
