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by a correspondent of the- "Cultivator." He says he has 

 sold the recipe for many dollars, and with it cured many 

 horses : 



" A handful of sumach bark and a handful of white-oak 

 bark, boiled in a gallon of water, down to two quarts ; 

 bathe the stifle with this lotion twice a day for three days; 

 then put on a salve made of the white of an egg and rosin, 

 and bathe the same in with a hot shovel two or three 

 times, and the horse is cured." 



CURE FOR SPRAINS. 



Take one part spirits of hartshorn, two parts neatsfoot 

 oil, and one part of spirits of turpentine. Mix the harts- 

 horn and oil, and then add the turpentine. 



SWINEY. 

 Bathe the part affected with saltpetre and water. 



RINGBONE. 



TREATMENT. Take gum camphor, one ounce ; spirits 

 sal. ammonia, two ounces ; mix these together in a junk 

 bottle ; let it stand twenty-four hours, occasionally sha- 

 king it together. Then add oil of spike and spirits of tur- 

 pentine, of each one ounce. Then shake all well together, 

 and it is fit for use. Apply this six successive mornings 

 by thoroughly rubbing it on the part, and apply a hot 

 shovel to cause the same to penetrate more freely, and a 

 cure will generally be effected. 



BLACK TONGUE. 



A handful of fine salt, rubbed upon the tongue of a 

 horse that has the black-tongue, will cure it in, at th 

 most, two applications. 



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