VETERINARY QUERIES.
[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Subgeon. Queries must be received by MONDAJ night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.] Farmer.—ln the first stages of when pain and lameness are present, y<?a might apply ccld water bandages or coaling and afterwards, if necessary, use a blistering ointment. A. W. F. wiites to ask for' a remedy for greasy heels in a draught horse and springs cart mare, and wants to know whether oss hoarse will give greasy hesls to another"? The treatment for greasy heels is to wash the hee-Ia clean with soap and water, dry well, and apply oxide of zinc ointment every night;" failing that, try carbolic oil. The trouble is said to.be contagious. .V. • v\ ~ • Greymcuth-—Judging - from .ycae description of the ailment of your filly, and the symptoms exhibited previous i3o death, they" av_pear to irdicate that she had been'suffering from, some parasitic invasion of the abdominal viscera, which a posit mortem examination by a qualified veterinarian probably would have revealed. .
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Otago Witness, 1 June 1910, Page 51
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167VETERINARY QUERIES. Otago Witness, 1 June 1910, Page 51
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