40 ROE ON THE HORSE. 



TREATMENT. 



If through persevering use of following lini- 

 ment you cannot prevent abcess, viz: Aqua Am- 

 monia, Spirits Turpentine, Alcoholic Spirits Cam- 

 phor, of each 2 ounces, well united, and thor- 

 oughly tried, proceed to poultice at once with 

 bran or corn meal, changing every 4 or 5 hours, 

 until it points towards knife or breaks. Let 

 your medicine after suppuration is established be 

 plenty of good nourishing feed and good nursing 

 tonics inclusive. 



CRIB-BITING AND WIND- SUCKING, 



I think this is oftener the result of hunger 

 than from any other cause, if not than all the 

 combined causes; but will not stop to discuss 

 the causeology, but proceed to its remedies. 



TREATMENT. 



As this long continued habit almost invaria 

 bly impairs the digestion and consequent useful- 

 ness of the horse, it is highly important first to 

 say to the stock grower to never allow his colts 

 to run dry or hungry, from the fact that cribbiting 

 and wind- sucking are always the result of abuse 

 or neglect of this noble animal in the domestica- 

 ted state, and a thing unknown to the horse in 

 his native state. But where this unhappy prac- 

 tice has been acquired, COT; r all catch able objects 

 witliin his reach with sheel iron, and place a re- 

 volving roller above the front of the manger, just 



