608 DH. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



may be healed by an ointment rcade of elder and bittersweet fried in lard, with 

 1 oz. of turpentine." 



Remarks. — A good-sized handful of each of these herbs to J^ lb. of lard 

 and the 1 oz. of turpentine put in when taken from the fire, would be about 

 the right proportion, and it will make a very healing ointment for any sore 

 whatever. I now leave every one to adopt the plan of treatment in their stock, 

 horses or cattle, here given, according to their condition, each judging for him- 

 self which plan or medicines will be the best to meet their respective cases, 

 being careful to look well to the general health in every case. In connection 

 with the arsenic treatment, given in tliis receipt, I should also use the Phosphate 

 Powder, in the next above, as it is both alterative and tonic. 



1. Bots in Horses, A New Remedy Worth its weight in 

 Gold. — The department of agriculture publishes the following experiments, 

 which a gentleman from Georgia tried and found effective in dispelling serious 

 trouble in horses. He says: " About 30 years ago a friend lost, by bots, a 

 very fine horse. He took from the stomach of the dead horse about a gill of 

 bots and brought them to my office to experiment upon. He made prepara- 

 tions of every remedy he heard of, and put some of them into each. Most had 

 DO effect, a few effected them slightly, but sage tea, more than anything else; 

 that killed them in fifteen hours. 



He concluded that he would kill them by putting them into nitric acid, but 

 it had no more effect on them than water; the third day they were as lively as 

 when put in. A bunch of tansy was growing by my oflice. He took a hand- 

 ful of that, bruised it, added a little water, squeezed out the juice and pnt some 

 bots into it. They were dead in one minute! Since then I have had it given to 

 every horse. I have never known it to fail of giving entire relief. My friend 

 had another horse affected with the bots, cured by this remedy. — Orange Visitor. 

 Springfield, O., Nov. 1875. 



Remarks. — I have had no opportunity of testing this, but I give it, believing 

 it is reliable. Is it not possible that it was because tansy would kill worms, 

 that tansy bitters were once so common and popular? I believe it was. 



Drenching a horse with sweetened milk following it, half hour later, with 

 strong sage tea then working it off with currier's oil, has been, heretofore, con- 

 sidered the best known remedy for bots; but it is probable that a strong tea of 

 tansy may be found a much better remedy than the sage, used similarly, 1 pt 

 each, in the order above named, a half hour apart, only. 



Tansy Tea for Bots.— There is undoubtedly more in the virtues of tansy 

 for bots, than appears upon the face of it; for the following item has been more 

 recently going the rounds of the papers: "Tansy tea is said to be a sure rem- 

 edy for bots in horses. Experiments tried upon bots show that while they resist 

 tl>e action of almost every other substance, they are quickly killed by tansy. 

 It is an easy matter to test it, by those who keep horses, when some of the bots 

 Lave been passed, by putting them into some of the extracted juice of the tansy 



Bots, their Manner of Production and How to Avoid them. 



—It will not be amiss to state here, that bots do not, as many suppose, breed in 



