370 = RECIPES, 
INFALLIBLE CURE FOR RING-BONE. 
Take two pieces of round lead, three-fourths of an inch in 
diameter and long enough to go around the horse’s ankle, © 
and bind it on tight above the ring-bone on the upper part. 
It is best to make your loop in two parts; it can be madeto” 
fit better, and can be tightened with a leather string or strap. 
Make regular loops and holes in your leather straps, which 
will enable you to fasten it on easier and better. You must 
_ have your loop around before. Anoint the ring-bone and 
hoof two or three times a day with tanners’ oil. You must 
not use the horse while you “have the lead on. “You may 
have to keep the lead on six months. If the lead makes the 
hoof sore, anoint it with mutton tallow. Or cut into the heel 
after the fetter-lock, up and doWM, pull out the bladder, anoint 
or bathe the ankle with the Pain Extractor, wash it frequently 
with chamber-lye and alum simmered together hot, and grease 
the hoof with. dog’s grease. Or take two ounces spitits tur- 
pentine, six ounces tanners’ oil and one ounce oil of vitriol, 
mix them together in an open glass jar, rub on a table-spoon- 
ful every other day, dry the medicine in with a hot brick, and 
every other day rub with soap; keep the hoof dry and grease 
it with dog’s grease. Make a boot for the horse’s foot, tie it 
above the hoof and fill the boot around the ring-bone with 
new-burnt lime of oyster shells. . Place the horse’s foot in a 
tub of water or in a pond for four or five hours, repeat this 
five days, and after that poultice the foot with a turnip poul- 
tice for four or five days. Observe to chafe the part before 
you apply the poultice. After apply a plaster of white pine 
turpentine for two or three weeks; or wash twice a day with — 
a hot strong sua toy and wet a cloth wih tan lag it 
on till well. 
