170 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



lard, and one of yellow resin. Mix the lard and resin 

 together, and add the flies when the other ingredients 

 begin to cool. To render it more active, add one pint 

 spirits turpentine. 



MEDICATED FOOD FOR HORSES AND CATTLE. 



Take linseed cake and pulverize or grind it up in 

 the shape of meal, and, to every fifty pounds of this 

 ingredient, add ten pounds Indian meal; two pounds 

 sulphuret of antimony; two i pounds ground ginger; 

 one and three-quarter pounds saltpetre, and two 

 pounds powdered sulphur. Mix the whole thoroughly 

 together, put in neat boxes or packages, for sale or 

 otherwise, as desired, and you will have an article 

 equal in value to Thorley's food, or almost any other 

 preparation that can be got up for the purpose of fat- 

 tening stock or curing disease in every case when food 

 or medicine can be of any use whatever. This article 

 can be fed in any desired quantity, beginning with a 

 few tablespoonfuls at a time, for a horse, mixing it 

 with his grain, and in the same proportion to smaller 

 animals, repeating the dose and increasing the quan- 

 tity as the case may seem to require. 



LOTION FOR MANGE. 



Boil two ounces tobacco in one quart water; strain; 

 add sulphur and soft soap, each two ounces. 



FOR STRAINS AND SWELLINGS. 



Strong vinegar saturated with common salt, used 

 warm, is good for strains and reducing swellings. One 

 ounce of white vitriol, one ounce of green copperas, 

 two teaspoonfuls of gunpowder, all pulverized to- 

 gether, and dissolved in one quart of soft water and 

 used cold, rubbing in thoroughly, is one of the best 

 applications known for reducing swellings. 



