it in with hot
iron each time, then discontinue its use for three days, after which
use as before for five mornings. Wait about eight or ten days and if
not gone repeat as before.
ARABIAN HORSE TAMER'S SECRET.--Take Oil of Cummin, Oil of Rhodium and
Horse Castor. Keep separate in air-tight bottles. Rub a little of the
Oil of Cummin on your hand and approach the horse on the windward side,
so that he can smell the Cummin. The horse will then let you come up to
him without trouble. Rub your hand gently on the horse's nose, getting
a little oil on it. He will then follow you. Give him a little of the
Castor on a piece of Loaf Sugar or Apple; get a few drops of the
Rhodium on his tongue, and he is your servant. He will follow you like
a pet dog.
CURE FOR SPAVIN AND RINGBONE.--Cantharides one ounce, Mercurial
Ointment half ounce, Corrosive Sublimate a half drachm, Turpentine one
and a half ounces, Tincture Iodine one ounce, Gum Euphorbium four
ounces. Mix well with one pound of Lard. For spavin or ringbone, cut
the hair away and grease the part well with the ointment, rubbing it in
well. In two days grease the parts with Lard; wash it off in two days
more, and again apply the ointment. So continue until a cure is
effected, which will be in a short time. For bog Spavin, wind gall,
curb or splint, apply the ointment every six days.
JOCKEY TRICKS.--How to make a horse appear as though he was badly
foundered.--Take a fine wire and fasten it tightly around the fetlock,
between the foot and the heel, and smooth the hair over it. In twenty
minutes the horse will show lameness. Do not leave it on over nine
hours. To make a horse lame.--Take a single hair from its tail, put it
through the eye of a needle, then lift the front leg and press the skin
between the outer and middle tendon or cord, and shove the needle
through, cut off the hair each side and let down the foot. The horse
will go lame in twenty minutes. How to make a horse stand by his food
and not take it.--Grease the front teeth and the roof of the mouth with
common beef tallow, and he will not eat until you wash it out. This, in
conjunction with the above, will consummate a complete founder. How to
cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind.--Saw between the upper
teeth to the gums. How to put a young countenance on a horse.--Make a
small incision in the sunken place over the eye, insert the point of a
goose quill and blow it up; close the external wound with a threa
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