The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-06
FOOT ROE.
Something About the Disease and How
10 Treat It-rhe Part T at

Something About the Disease and How
70 Treat It-rhe Part T at
Maggots Play.
Agricultural Pape.
In the first place, some contrivance for
holding the sheep at ease and handy for
the operator Is necessary; this Is found in
a new sheep. chair, which is a sort Of box
on four legs just high enough when the
sheep lies in it on its back to be conve-
nient for a man TO work handy while
standing; the box holding the hind
part OF the sheep being q. little
the lower and the operator standing be-
hind the box will face and have view oil
his work. One side OF the box is adjust
able aud can be slipped in or drawn out
and conform to any sized sheep, holding 1t
close and snug. Now pair OF strong toe
nippers and couple OF sharp thin knives
are nect ssary. Shoe-knives with blades
curved a little are best; one quite narrow
and one the ordinary size, the narrow ones
to be used between the hooks and in turn.
ing short corners, which is NECESSARY many
Zines in trimming the feet ready for the
medicine.
Now with the tools at hand divest the
foot Of every diseased part, being careful
not to start the blood, for when the blood
is mixed with the medicine 1t coagulates
and destroys the effect, and must be clean
ed of and another application made; then
with swab soak the diseased feet " 18th
butter OF anthony and smear them over
with tar; put the sheep for few hours on q
barn door or some place where the remedy
can't be rubbed eff until II has the desired
effect. II you are determined to drive the
disease from the lock without regard tocost
or trouble, q solution oil blue vitrol as strong
as It can be made and as hot as the hand
can bear is perhaps surest, for by holding
the foot in It for few minutes It pene-
trates 10 every part where the disease can
find lodgmen., and then 1t is not 30 painful
and biting as some OF the cuastics are.
Blue vitrol finely pulverizsd and tsickly
mixed with tar and put on with paddle
Is good remedy and easily applied. Tar
does no direct good toward killing foot-roi;
Il only holds the vitrol in place, keeps
flies Of and heals the sore alter caustics
have done their perfect work, and it even
facilitates the operation OF the caustic.
When maggots have been in q sleeps
foot for some time no caustic medicine is
necessary 10 kill the rot, for the maggois
eat out the virus and kill the disease, and
all that Is necessary to do Is 10 clean of the
foot and smear It over with tar and II will
he well in few days. By an observing
flockmaster maggots can be detected in q
sleeps foot some distance of by the sheep
holding up the maggoty foot, which looks
swollen and black between the claws, and
can be plainly seen while the sheep isgoing
from you, and II not attended to at once
the sheep Is lost from the spread Of the
maggots on the body. After rain ia the
best time to doctor footrot, then the hooi
is soft and cuts easily, but in dry time
and require considerable muscle to cut
through them. To be an expert in doc.
toring foot.rot man should have good
eyesight and be quick and handy with
tools; bungling awkward fellow had bet
ter split rails.