Selting Sheep--foot Rot

vlJL) i) O O I have nevor lost oíd huep frqm s 'ltipg. [ gira about thirty or ib 'y po:in(is of aalt to the tliojusand hoi'l, ohee a week. 1 hsve known meu to ki 11 lamba right aftei' weaniiig, bv ovar silting. They go out uto a iiick of lambs an-d ecatter out about wbat ainount they ibink they ought to have, and no ÍF and loave iliein, thinking tbut tlu'y will eat it :i a day or two. A part of thuin eut inuoh more than tlieir sbare, tnd fVequenlly kill tliemsolves. Tlie remedy for it is to salt very lightly at ñrst, and ofte n. Yeara ugo 1 used t') practico iiiixing about oae-tliird uuleached aslirs vvith s;tlt, but I havo conoluded tbat it íh hardly worth wliile to coinpul well ttl'eup to eat what I may chauce to think would be good for thoin. Slieop - a few iu a flouk - may get lamo from being kapt io quite muddy féed lots, but it 18 not foot-rot. O i catching and examining such, yon will fiud tliat tbe most of tliem have got a hard clod ie the elef.s of Ihe feot, which irritates llie foot. I don't believe hoof rot ever yot broko out spontaneously in our eonntry. í know that it frequently breaks out in g tlock vyhere the owneimay think they have uever been exposéd to eontagiou. To cure foot-rot, pare all the diseased foet down lo sound flesh, aud apply a solution of blue vitriol. - Examine every' sheep in the flock. Separate the sound froin the unsound as inucli as possible. Iu a largeflook here in Illinois it is almost iiupossible to curo it. One uau kep it uudor by constant doctoFing; and the toneer it stays the milder is the disease. The great thing in curing it is to pare away with a sharp knife evory bit of the diseased matter. A gieat point, also. is lo keep the bbeep out of tlie wet grass after dot - toring, to give the vitriol a chance to strike in You would soog know the foot-rot from other lameness in the feet, from the lamo foot becoiuing so rotteo, and parlieularly from its attaoking first odc foot and then anothur, until a sheep sometimes is lamo iu three feet. It aliaost always attaoks one of the fore feet first, then the other, and perhaps one of the hiud feet. Wheu a sheep gels laine ia both fore feet, it will hobbie along u few yards, and then dno down on its knees