362 RECIPES, 
FOR HEAVES IN HORSES. 
Make a strong tea of balsam firr - boughs or bark and black 
cherry tree bark, soak your oats in it, and feed your horses 
with the oats for one week. Or take four ounces of opium, 
threé ounces sulphur, four ounces ginger and four ounces salt- 
petre, pulverize, moisten with molasses, and make it into pills 
as large as a robin’s egg. Give one pill, and in three days 
after give one more. After that, give one ounce a week for 
four or five weeks, or till gone, or the horse is cured. Or 
take one and a half pounds ginger for a horse, and give him 
one table-spoonful mixed with wheat bran, at night, and. one 
in the morning. It seldom fails, Or dissolve one-fourth - 
ounce asafcetida and put it in his provender a number of 
times, Or take hornet’s nests, comb and all, and pick it to 
pieces, and mix it with his provender ; immediately after give 
him some boiled potatoes. You may boil the nest. and mix 
it—the horse will eat it better. Or tie leaves of tobacco on 
_ the bits, and give. one and a half pounds ginger in the. 
ing manner: one table-spoonful at night and, one in Pr 
morning. Or mix one pound ginger, one-half pound sulphur, 
and two ounces pulverized saltpetre well together, and give 
_ two ounces in provender at night; give him cut straw and 
- ‘Tndian meal ; moisten his hay and see that it is not musty. 
WORMS IN HORSES. 
“weeks one quart of milk with honey, and give it to the 
horse; then powder one-half ounce aloes, and give it in a 
strong decoction of savine boughs: If they have not eaten 
through it will effect a cure. Give them a little tobacco cut 
_.... seein eatin’ and A peatent 
