TO CURE BONE SPAVIN ON HORSES. 
Dissolve blue vitriol in oil of. spike, and rub the spayin 
with it twenty days. Or wash the spavin well with soap 
suds, and put one cent’s worth of corrosive sublimate i in two 
spoonfuls of vinegar. Rub the afflicted part with it a few 
times, and oil it with eel‘oil. Or put one ounce of 
in one quart of alcohol, « cork it up tight, ‘and rub it on ar d 
bathe it in every night. When first put on it causes more 
lameness. Don’t use the horse ‘much. Or simmer one 
pound of poke root in one f ho Ys lard or fresh but- 
ter, strain, and add one-half pint white pine turpentine, 
Put it on one or two days. Be careful and n ‘the 
cords. After that make a tea of white oak bark, put in one 
ounce alum to a pint, and y wasg with nit five oF ten minutes, 
for two or three days. After that, pu 
for a day or two, and then eee: as Sacre so continue 
till cured. 
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a ctw son, cll bell, mng-co 
take year at lf a radon the ewe ll thio 
on a pail of water as soon as she is covered.” Use her care- 
fully, and keep her from the smell of fresh blood. Milk her 
before the colt sucks. If you want a horse colt, put your 
mare when the sign is in the head, neck, arms, breast or heart; 
if the wind is west or north when your have your mare coy- 
ered it never fails—-west wind is best. If you put your mare 
when the sign is below the heart, she will have a mare colt. 
If your mare has conceived, she will have a good stomach 
and be contented. 
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