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Show pears at the heel, constituting what farmers often call "grease heel." Ia other cases the matter finds its way under the sole and the horse is then very lame and cannot bear the pressing pres-sing of a shoe. The cause of the disease is standing in wet and filth in badly cared for stables, sta-bles, and farmers often make matters worse by the application of cow-dung poultices, which should never be applied ap-plied to the foot of any animaL Whenever a horse is found to have contracted this disease have the shoes removed and with a sharp shoer's knife remove all rotten and under run sole and frog and then thoroughly cleanse with a strong disinfectant such as chloro-naptholeuni recently advertised adver-tised in these columns. Then if the horse is lame apply a hot poultice of Oaxseed meal in which has been mixed mix-ed a cupful of powdered wood charcoal, char-coal, which will soon deodorize tho foot. When everything appears sweet and clean, which will be after the application ap-plication of about four poultices, dry the parts thoroughly and pack calomel calo-mel into the cleft of the frog and en both sides of it and cover with oakum well pressed in by means of a knife-shaped knife-shaped stick. The dressing should be renewed every day for a week, then every three days, during all of which time the horse should stand in a dry, clean stable. Do not pack the frog with powdered bluestone as is often done, for the reason that one cannot tell where it will stop. We have seen this drug penetrate as far as the coffin cof-fin joint in a horse that had to be shot so lame and worthless had it become from a simple case of thrush which had been badly neglected and then erroneously er-roneously treated. After the frog Is healthy and the discharge and bad odor cease shoe with plates coming back only as far as the quarters so as to cause frog pressure and if the foot be then kept from the original cause of the disease no further trouble will be experienced. Thrush. One of the most unpleasant common diseases of the farm horse is known as "thrush of the foot" and consists in a moist, fetid condition which frequently fre-quently gives rise to more or less lameness and always to a foul odor and unhealthy state of the frog, which is liable to become serious if not attended attend-ed to properly and promptly. On picking up the foot of a horse suffering from this disease it will be found thcit the frog is soft and rotten and that there is a discharge of white, foul-smelling matter exuding from the cleft of the frog and at each side of it i In very bad cases we also find that the j matter frequently forces its way be-I be-I ,tween the horny and soft frog and ap- |