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taken the heavy feed that the working-horses formerly had, 

 from them, and put them on to a light diet, — mashes of oats 

 and carrots, — and given them no medicine with the exception 

 of a little Jamaica ginger and elecampane ; I made the mixture 

 and ffave it to them when the disease was at its worst, and I 

 think it gave them some relief. I did not blanket them while 

 they were in the stal)le, because I believed, with my friend Dr. 

 Bates, that they were better off without it. It was not very 

 warm, but on pleasant days, when the sun shone in the middle 

 of the day, I turned them out for two, three or four hours, into 

 a lot, so that when it was dry they would get the sun and 

 pure air, and although they were chary about eating, they 

 would nibble the grass a little. They have all of them 

 recovered now, so that I can work them. AVe did nothing 

 with those six horses except tend the post-office and depot, and 

 such things as we must do with a horse. The treatment was 

 to keep them in the stable, give them the best air we could 

 there, blanket them whenever we took them out of the stable 

 for any pui-pose, rub them well in the legs, especially if they 

 were cold, and they were most all troubled in that way ; and 

 I believe that they were better off than they would have been 

 if they had taken large quantities of medicine, and been bled 

 and blistered in the state of the disease which was mauifested 

 there. Very likely there have been cases which required 

 more active treatment, but I am sure ours did not, and they 

 are coming out of it with that simple treatment better than I 

 expected they would. 



Mr. -. I have a horse that has not had the disease, 



and I will give the treatment. After the commencement of 

 the disease, the horse had a quantity of apples every day until 

 some time about the 20th of October. After that time she had 

 two quarts of potatoes in the morning, and when she had the 

 •apples, and when she had the potatoes, she had a small quan- 

 tity of salt and a small quantity of ashes put in the manger, 

 and her food at night was fine feed. On warm days she was 

 out without a blanket, and when the day was cold, she was in 

 the field with a blanket. I have driven her round to the 

 different villages, hitched her to a post, and covered her up 

 with a blanket, and when I got home I have covered her up 

 with .a blanket, rubbed her freely, given her a good warm nest 



