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scab will not trouble you any longer. The foot rot will always more or less 
affect flocks which are compelled to feed on moist land, or to pass often through 
wet swampy places. The cure is easy, if attended to in time. Take all the 
lame sheep into a dry yard, with a sharp knife pare oft' all the hoof where 
there is the least appearance of matter, and until you come to a healthy look¬ 
ing flesh or hoof. Take a pound of blue vitriol or sulphate of copper and put 
into a quart bottle, fill up with rain or river water, put a goose quill through 
the cork, and after it has stood for a few hours it is ready for use. After 
clearing the foot, apply this slowly and carefully so that every part is reached 
by the solution. Let your sheep go on to dry ground. Examine it the week 
after, and if the work has been w T ell done, the sheep is cured. There is a great 
variety of quack medicines to cure foot rot, but they are humbugs all. Blue 
vitriol, or as it is known at the druggists, sulphate of copper, dissolved in pure 
water is the cheapest, safest and best remedy that experience has yet discovered 
for this disease. But without thoroughly paring off the hoof nothing will cure 
the disease; that done, and little else is necessary except dry ground. The 
best remedy for all other diseases is good keeping, salt freely, and sulphur oc¬ 
casionally. 
I have endeavored to condense into as small a space as possible all that might 
be of real service to the wool grower. If I have done the cause any service I 
shall be gratified. Of the importance of wool growing I have said but little, 
but I am well satisfied that there is no locality where sheep in large or small 
flocks may not be profitably kept; and it will be many, very many years yet 
before it will not, as a general thing, equal any other branch of business 
adopted on the farm. 
The annual consumption of wool in this country is equal to six pounds to 
every inhabitant, which w r ould give at least one hundred and fifty millions of 
pounds, requiring at least fifty millions of grown sheep to produce it. The 
last census shows that we possess only about twenty millions. Of the w r ool 
consumed, we grow at home fifty millions; we import about twenty-five mil¬ 
lions more in the unmanufactured state. This will make seventy-five millions 
of pounds which is manufactured here, while the other seventy-five millions is 
imported in the shape of manufactured goods. Taking the price at the average 
of our wool for the last two years it would give at least thirty millions of dol¬ 
lars as the amount the farmers would have saved to the country if they had a 
full supply of sheep. With the increase of population to the extent of at least 
