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364 RECIPES. 
FOR BOTTS IN HORSES. 
Take poplar and white ash bark, pulverize, and put them 
in their provender, one ounce at a time. Or boil one pound 
hemlock boughs in two quarts water, strain “it, and put it 
with one quart rye, one pint molasses, and one ounce alum ; 
boil them together, and give the horse as it is, or in proven- 
der.’ Or take one-half pint flax seed oil, one-half pint sweet 
“milk, one-half pint molasses, one ounce pulverized alum, one- 
half ounce pulverized saltpetre—put them all together, and 
give it toe the horse. Or take two ounces savine boughs, cut 
fine, and give it in the provender. Or give one pint of strong 
tea of dogwood. Or take one-half gill spirits turpentine, 
one-half pint rum, one-half pint milk, one-half pint molasses, 
one large charge of gunpowder, one-half ounce alum—all 
mixed together and given at once. This is to be done in ex- 
treme cases. Rub the horse’s breast and chops before you 
give the dons, with. spisia turpentiue. Take two ounces of 
md two ounces of dry hen dung, pulverized, and put 
in one > pint of spirits, or any kind of liquid. It gives imme- 
diate relief. Or give one quart of fresh blood, warm from a’ 
beef creature. If the horse is troubled with botts there will 
be bunches on the inside of the upper lip; rub them with 
salt till they bleed ; then give your horse potatoes and flax 
seed oil freely for a day or two. Or give two ounces of un- 
slacked lime in their water or feed night and morning regu- 
larly, for three or four days, Or take one-half pint of new 
milk, one-half pint molasses, two ounces common salt; one 
ounce copperas, one-half pint warm water, put all together, 
and give it all at once. Do this two or three times. 
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FOR STAGGERS IN HORSES. 
Give one pint of rum mixed with one ounce of powder. : 
