ttom of the pipe. Repeat in four days, and in two or three days you
can remove the pipe without any trouble.
CURE FOR SCRATCHES.--Sweet Oil three ounces, Borax one ounce, Sugar of
Lead one ounce. Mix and apply twice daily after washing thoroughly with
castile soap, giving time for legs to dry.
GREAT ARABIAN HEAVE REMEDY.--Give your horse a teaspoonful of Lobelia
once a day for a week and then once a week, and you will hardly know he
ever had the heaves. Try it.
BOTS.--Take new Milk two quarts, Syrup one quart, mix and give the
whole, and in fifteen or twenty minutes after give two quarts of warm,
strong Sage tea; half an hour after the tea give one quart of raw
Linseed Oil, or if the Oil cannot be had give Lard instead.
DIURETICS.--Take Balsam Copaiba two ounces, Sweet Spirits of Nitre
three ounces, Spirits of Turpentine two ounces, Oil of Juniper two
ounces, Tincture of Camphor two ounces. Mix; shake the bottle before
pouring the medicine. Dose for adult horse, two tablespoonfuls in a
pint of milk, repeated every four to six hours, if necessary. This is a
reliable preparation for kidney difficulties.
FOUNDER.--Vinegar three pints, Capsicum one-half drachm, Tincture of
Aconite Root fifteen drops. Mix and boil down to one quart; when cool
give it as a drench. Blanket the horse well; after the horse has
perspired for an hour or more, give one quart of raw Linseed Oil. This
treatment will be found good for horses foundered by eating too much
grain.
MANGE.--Oil Tar one ounce, Lac Sulphur one and one-half ounces, Whale
Oil two ounces. Mix. Rub a little on the skin wherever the disease
appears, and continue daily for a week, then wash off with castile soap
and warm water.
POLL EVIL AND FISTULA.--Tincture of Opium one drachm, Potash two
drachms, Water one ounce; mix, and when dissolved inject into the pipes
with a small syringe, having cleansed the sore with soap-suds; repeat
every two days until pipes are completely destroyed.
CONDITION POWDER.--Take Antimony Crude one ounce, Lobelia gr. one
ounce, Ginger two ounces, Sulphur Flour three ounces, Berberry gr. one
ounce, Cream Tartar four ounces, Saltpetre Flour four ounces; well
mixed. Dose, one tablespoonful each day in wet feed. Best in the
market; will sell well.
FOR BONE SPAVIN.--Hog's Lard half pint, best Oil Origanum one and a
half ounces, Oil Cajeput two ounces, pulverized Cantharides half ounce.
Mix, and apply each morning for four mornings, heating
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