Mo iGRICeLTURiL ESSAYS. 



horse, Gibson directs, that the cleft be paired out to tlie quicfe, 

 then annoint the hoof with a mixture of tar, honey and 

 suet melted together, and lay a pledget dipt in the game a- 

 long the cleft. Then bind up the hoof as tight as possible, by 

 winding rope yarn closely around it from top to bottom. The 

 shoe should previously be taken off. The wound should be 

 Opened and drest every third or fourth day, and to prevent any 

 inconvenience from this, let the cleft be held together at the 

 bottom by a thin plate fastened on for that purpose. It is how- 

 ever very difficult, and often impossible, says the same author^ 

 to effect a cure in an old and a diseased horse. 



Farcy is a disease in' horses similar to the scurvy among 

 men, and is caused by confining a horse too long to dry meal. 

 Tt is known by small tumors appearing on the head and 

 other parts of the body. Turning a horse to fresh pastures 

 will effect a cure in the first stages of the disorder; but when 

 it has become more inveterate by long standing, Gibson directs 

 that the horse be bled, moderately purged, and then that doses" 

 of antimony be given him. 



Foundering of horses. — It is usuaHy said that a horse is- 

 foundered, when his feet and legs have become stiffened and 

 sore, by eating too large a quantity of hard grain at once. The" 

 best remedy for this has been found to be exercise by riding- ;.• 

 and in addition to this, also, put into a rag human ordure and 

 wind round the bits, and let him chevv upon it while riding him>- 

 and in due season repeat the dose, if necessary. 



There is a disorder of the feet of horses, in which they ard 

 also said to be foundered. This is a p ainful disease ; the horse,^ 

 affected with it, draws hhnself up in a heap, and is loth to 

 move. It is occasioned by standing in cold water, after being 

 heated v/ith exercise, or sometimes even by standing still in- 

 the stable several days after exercise ; sometimes by bad shoe- 

 ing, or by bruises on the legs. 



In this case, if a remedy be not immediately applied, a gath- 

 ering will take place in the feet, and the hoofs will be cast off j^ 

 by which the use of the horse will be lost for some time. The 

 remedy is, to slit the hoofs open from top to bottorh, so that 

 blood will follow pretty freely^ In order to cure these wounds 

 again, apply tar, turpentine, and honey, melted together, with 

 a fourth part of the spirits of wine 4 let pledgets, made of tow^ 

 be soaked in this, and then laid in the chinks of the foot bound 

 up. These are not to be opened for two days ; and then let 

 fresh applications be made every day till the channels in the 

 hoofs bje grown up. 



If the Bole of the foot is also drawn, it must fee served in » 



