BREEDING THE TROTTER 



When the horse is ready to blanket, and before 

 doing so, take some lung salve or antiphlogistine 

 and apply it on each side of the horse over the 

 lungs, or just back of the forearms. Rub the salve 

 in thoroughly and then smooth the hair down. 

 Also rub some of the salve around the horse's 

 throat. After this blanket the horse. Put a good 

 woolen sweat blanket next to the body and a body 

 blanket and hood over this, then take the animal 

 to a stall in which the temperature is around fifty 

 degrees or fifty-five degrees. See that this stall is 

 well ventilated, but without drafts, and that the 

 horse has plenty of fresh air to breathe. Give it 

 all the fresh cold water it will drink. 



From now on give twenty drops of tincture of 

 aconite root every four hours, according to direc- 

 tions, until the fever goes down, but never con- 

 tinue it beyond six doses and give it no oftener 

 than once in four hours. 



I have never had a case of pneumonia, taken in 

 time, that was not cured with this treatment. In 

 one case the horse's fever went to one hundred 

 and seven degrees, although one hundred and four 

 degrees is usually considered dangerous. Usually 

 in forty-eight hours the horse's temperature will 

 be normal, and the animal ready for use, but care 

 should be exercised for a week or two to see that 

 the horse is not subjected to sudden changes in 

 temperature. 



DISTEMPER. 



All young horses are subject to distemper some- 

 time during their lives, but generally between one 



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