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man can compound for himself. A widely-advertised 

 remedy for sprains, curbs, sore throats, rheumatism, and a 

 score of other ills is nothing more than turpentine, acetic 

 acid, and white of ^gg^ and can be made up for a tithe of 

 what is charged for it. Sequah's embrocation is said to be 

 a mixture of turpentine and fish oil, and the main in- 

 gredient in Jacob's oil is turpentine. 



All spiced foods I abhor. ^Mellin's food is excellent for 

 horses recovering from serious illness, and especially so in 

 the case of foals. 



The importance of grooming o.-^xmoth^ overrated. There 

 is an old maxim, " a good cleaning is equal to a feed of 

 corn." There is a close connection between the skin and 

 the digestive organs. Mr. Armitage mentions the good 

 produced on fourteen colliery horses and ponies cared for 

 by an infirm horse-keeper, dressing them with a coarse 

 brush morning and evening. " His horses and ponies," 

 wrote that able veterinary, " would have caused many owners 

 of animals above ground to blush with shame at their 

 superior condition and shining skins. They were always 

 doing equal work with the animals of other collieries, but 

 suffered least of all ^ and consumed the least corn." The proof 

 of the dirt and perspiration having been properly removed, 

 and of the due application of " elbow grease," will be found 

 in the shining coat, which, when stroked down, will not soil 

 the most delicate tinted kid glove. Grooms are very fond 

 of using water in cleaning, not in thoroughly washing, the 

 horse ; it saves trouble as compared with wisp or brush. 

 All cleaning out of doors should be strictly forbidden. 

 When the legs are dirty, instead of turning on a stream of 

 cold water, whilst the horse is standing wearied and perhaps 

 shivering, the best plan is to use a brush and cold water up 

 to the knees in summer, lukewarm in winter, with a little 



