A CATTLE DISEASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10089, 10 September 1910, Page 5

A CATTLE DISEASE.

AFFECTION OF THE FOOT. It was recently stated that a disease had made its appearance among cattle in the South Wairarapa. Bfc attacks the animals foot, which become somewhat swollen, and then emits a pus all round the top of the hoof. So serious are the effects of this that it seems to eat right into the bone, and eventually the foot falls off. The disease is stated to be contagious, and much apprehension ts felt among farmers for their cattle. A settler of Cambridge, Waikato, writing to the Wairarapa Age on this subject, says:—"The disease referred to is not unknown ia this district. I had it in my herd last year. There were about eight cases altogether, - including a valuable bull. I iried a number of remedies

—kerosene, Stockholm tar, etc. I then- heard -of muriatic acid, or what is 'known* by plumbers as "spirits of salts,'! and I found it very effective. I "use nothing else now. The animal should be kept in the bail, and the foot washed as clean as possible. When it is day the acid should be applied, taking care that it reaches all diseased parts, especially between the claws. This may seem a severe remedy, but it is infinitely kinder than to let/ the disease run its course. Kerosene, if applied at the commencement />f the disease, is very good. Settlers should take , great pains to stop the disease early,, and not let it go to the suppurating stage The virus from a diseased part most undoubtedly may affect others. The permanent, remedy is to stop all outbreaks as soon as possible, and keep yards, etc., clean."