CANARY-STAINED WOOL
RELATION TO FOOTROT NO BACTERIOLOGICAL PROOF Although the relationship has not yet been bacteriologically examined, it is suggested by workers among wool that the so-called "canary-stained," or yellow wool, which lis frequently found on the brisket and up the sides behind the forelegs on a sheep, is affected with the same bacterial organism which causes footrot. It has been noticed that where this stained wool is found in a fleece tlio sheep from which it is shorn invariably has footrot. and it is suggested that the germ spreads from the feet to the brisket wool when the affected .sheep are kneeling as they feed, or when they are lying down and the diseased feet come in contact with the brisket or sides. As the chemical composition of the horn or hoof and of wool or hair is practically identical, there appears no reason why a germ attacking one should not affect the other also. If research proves the causative germ to be the same, it will take us a long step further on the road of discovery of the footrot germ, its life cycle and treatment for control.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23356, 26 May 1939, Page 7
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