316 UOW TO MAKE THE FARM FAY. 



loms are discovered before the jaws become locked, make a 

 mash by boiling a peck of bran in a gallon of water. The bran 

 should be in a loose bag; and after boiling twenty minutes, bind 

 this bag to the throat as hot as it can be borne; at the same time 

 fasten a quilt, or a couple of large blankets, over him. Just 

 before binding on the bag, give a quart of corn meal gruel. If 

 you can thus produce perspiration, you will be likely to save 

 locked jaw.' 



If, however, the jaw should be locked before action is taken, 

 or become locked in spite of the means taken, resort must be 

 had to bleeding and opiates. Bleed two quarts from the neck 

 vein, then stop the flow for half an hour; then bleed three 

 quarts again ; stop the flow, and again bleed three or four quarts. 

 Never bleed continuously in any case. 



Now have ready the bran mash and quilt, adding a little to- 

 bacco juice and camphor to the water. Dissolve a quarter of 

 a pound of salts in a half pint of warm water, and add one 

 ounce of laudanum. Turn this slowly down the horse's throat, 

 by means of a tunnel or open horn inserted between the front 

 and back teeth. After three hours, give the corn meal gruel ; 

 and in three more, two ounces of salts. Give the gruel every 

 six hours. In the mean time, let a pail of gruel stand where 

 he can stick his nose into it with ease, and he will suck it up 

 himself as soon as his sufferings abate. If all these measures 

 should fail of relief, cut the scab from his fore leg, grate it fine 

 on a coarse file, put a teaspoonful in each ear, and dust a little 

 up his nose. 



Cramps, or spasms of the muscles, are caused by over-exer- 

 tion during the day, and cramped confinement during the night. 

 The horse loses control of his limbs; one moment they may be 

 stiff and rigid, the next they may jerk and twitch with more or 



