VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 7 April 1892, Page 24

VETERINARY QUERIES.

FAnHwercd by a ilulv qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries mint be received by Monday night to ensure reply in the succeeding Issue.] D. M. — Lodge your calf warmly and comfortably and clothe it with flannel or a thick rug wrung out of hot water and placed over the affected quarter, Repeat this frequently, covering it with dry cloths and allowing it to stand for an hour, then throw them off and rub dry, puttingon fresh cloths, and carefully avoid draughts. At the same time administer laxative medicine followed by tonics, with plenty of good food. If the pain concentrates in any joint use stimulat-

ing embrocations. X. Y. Z.— Foot-rot may be simple inflammation of the horn-secretjng structures and adjacent skin, the result of irritation, or it may be the result of contagion. Sometimes it is a sequence of tuberculosis or arises from disease of the liver. If it is only the first mentioned ailment pare away any loose or detached horn and dress with tar bandages, removing the sheep to dry, healthy pasture, otherwise they require to be treated in accordance with the primary affec-

tion. New Chum.— (l) The symptoms you give of the mai - e's complaint are not definite enough. They seem to point to a complication of ailments which would require an examination by a qualified expert to unravel. (2) Mr G. Harrington, St. Glair, has a pair of mules, three years old, broken to saddle and harness, for which he asks L 25.