HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



In addition to giving this hall niglit and morning, it is 

 advisable to use an injection twice daily. The following will 

 be found beneficial : — 



The injection. — Recipe. — Hazeline, i ounce ; tincture of 

 opium, 6 drachms ; starch gruel (warm), i pint ; mix and 

 inject the whole at once, using a small sized (horse) clyster 

 syringe. On no account neglect the injection. If this treat- 

 ment is continued for a few days, a cure may be anticipated. 

 Lastly, it must be mentioned that chlorodyne, given in half 

 ounce doses, along with a pint of corn flour gruel, will sometimes 

 afford relief. 



DIARRHCEA IN YOUNG STOCK. 



When mares are allowed to remain too long awav from 

 the foal, the latter endeavours as it were, to make up for lost 

 time, thereby not only does it take milk to excess, but the fluid 

 itself has probably undergone certain changes, rendering it 

 difficult of assimilation, consequently it is cast out as being 

 unfitted for the nourishment of the young animal. 



Treatment (i) Preventive. — Don't allow the mare to be 

 away from the fcal above a couple or three hours at one time. 

 Feed the dam regularly, avoiding any fcod which is at all 

 likely to disorder the digestive organs. 



(2) Medicinal. — Very often we can, by operating on the 

 mare, through the use of simple medicinal agents, rectify the 

 irregular state of the foal's bowels. It is almost always 

 expedient to add half an ounce of bicarbonate of potash to the 

 drinking water, or else to a small bran mash, (iive this twice 

 daily to the mother. At the same time let the foal have the 

 following draught : — 



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