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3. Or take equal parts of powdered alum, honey and flour. 

 Work to a paste and apply. Change every two or three days till a 

 sure is effected. 



For liniment, see page 538 



LICE. 



Remedies 1. The water in which potatoes have been 

 boiled with their skins on is a good local remedy for lice on all 

 domestic animals. In cooking potatoes use just water enough to 

 cover them, and wet the infected animals with it when it is warm, 

 not hot; one or two applications will be found effectual. 



2. Rub into the roots of the hair white precipitate, in powder, 

 taking care not to sweat the horse or wet his skin for some days 

 afterwards. 



3. Powdered stavesacre seed, two ounces, and water, one quart, 

 boiled together for twenty minutes and well rubbed into the 

 hair, will destroy the vermin; but the horse must not be allowed 

 to lick himself. 



4. Wash the animal thoroughly with sour buttermilk. It 

 destroys the vermin and does not injure the horse. Repeat as neces- 

 sity may require and blanket the horse until dry. 



MANGE. 



Symptoms Mange is produced by a parasitic insect; also 

 by contact with horses previously affected with the same disease. 

 When caused by contagion, as certainly happens in the vast majority 

 of cases, the first symptoms noticed will oe an excessive itching of 

 the skin, which is soon followed by a bareness of the hair in patches, 

 partly caused by constant friction. This disease usually shows 

 itself on the side of the neck, just at the edges of the mane, and on 

 the insides of the quarters near the root of the tail. From these 

 parts the eruption extends along the back and down the sides, sel- 

 dom involving the extremities excepting in very confirmed cases. 

 After a time the hair almost entirely fails off, leaving the skin at 

 first bare and smooth, with a few small red pimples scattered over it. 

 In process of time, the pimples increase in number and size, and 

 from them a matter exudes which hardens into a scab. 



Remedies 1. Dress the affected parts with a solution of 

 carbolic acid in the proportion of half an ounce of the acid to a pint 

 of water. If one dressing is not sufficient, after two days it should 

 be washed off and another applied. 



2. Another treatment is to wash the affected part with soap 

 and warm water, with soda dissolved in it, after which apply a lini- 

 ment composed of equal parts of oil of tar and oil of turpentine by 



