Show TREA TREATMENT FOR SHEEP FOOT ROT for anany years sheep have breaded rea leil troublesome some affections in their flocks known as foot rot rol the terra term as com commonly used includes two foot fool ailments are true or contagious ing alous foot rot and a so called foot rot or foot bot soreness sor dorer eress trite toot foot rot Is a highly contagious bacterial disease resulting front from infection of the feet with bacillus this disease lle as jg characterized by inflammation flam mation of 0 the foot ond arid by fever followed by ulceration softening of the hoof the formation of a fetid p purulent ur alent sticky dist barge of chara characteristic ettria odor lameness and sometimes of boot TL the e organism may even attack the lh bones of the sh chrep cp traveling becomes almost almost impossible when two or more of the feet are infected and death may result foot soreness which Is less Is ig usually the me result of mechanical injury which breaks the skin and thus allows filth nud and soll soil borne infectious organism entrance inflammation ul cerut laii and formation of pus may follow if tile tho infection Is disregarded but it is not conta contagious glou like true foot rot the alie treatment fr for either cither foot rot or 0 toot foot bareness reness bo consists of removing the directed sheep raring paring away all dead horny growth frota froia the hoot hoof removing till fill foreign material materi il anil and the foot in an powdered crystals cry of copper sul bul phate cliate commonly culled called bue b ue or bille alic etolie stone may be dusted between tile lie toes or ou on tile the ulcer Ll ealing usually follows in ili a few days instead of powdered blue stone some shep raisers prefer a paste of equal parts of powdered blue flowers of sulphur and burnt alum aluin mixed with lard vasel vaseline lne or pine tar to make a paste auls Is a applied directly to the ulcers mass ilass treatment of tile the lock flock Is often desirable for this ube a auter tiglia tig tt trough 1 I 8 or 10 inches wide 4 to G indies inches deep and about 8 feet 1011 ions placed between panels so the lie sheep can be forced to walk through a saturated solution of copper sulphate about 2 inches deep la III the trough troug li 0 0 8 hell bell in charge of sheep work at the ohio experiment station |