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HORSE— DISEASES AND REMEDIES. 



or a piece of leather inserted under the 

 skin, will cure, with rest. 



HORSE, Warts on Nose. — Dissolve 

 one-half pound of alum in a quart of 

 water, with a brush or cloth wet the warts 

 twice each day for four days, and they 

 will disappear. Another remedy is to 

 smear the warts with salted butter. 



HORSE, Water-Farcin. — Symptoms : 

 The horse is dull and loses his appetite, 

 and swells along the belly or chest and 

 between the fore legs. To cure : Rowel 

 in the breast and along each side of the 

 chest, as far as the swelling goes. Leave 

 the rowels in until the swelling goes 

 down ; give a spoonful of cleansing pow- 

 ders morning and night. 



HORSE, Wen, To Cure a.— Take equol 

 parts of soft soap and slacked lime, well 

 mixed. Lance the wen at the time of 

 making the application, or two or three 

 days after. Two or three applications 

 will cure. 



HORSE, Wind in, to Improve.— It will 

 be found, if tar water and powdered 

 charcoal are mixed with horse's feed, that 

 it will have a most beneficial effect on his 

 wind and condition. 



HORSE, Nasal Gleet or Running at the 

 Nose. — Take one-half pound rosin, one- 

 halt pound blue vitrol, and lour ounces 

 ginger; grind them together to powder, 

 and give the horse a spoonful two or 

 three times a day. 



HORSE, Baulky, to Cure.— A sure and 

 complete remedy to cure a baulky horse, 

 is to silently take a rope and tie one end 

 to his tail and the wagon, making it so 

 that when you start him the rope will 

 be so short that the whole strain of 

 the pull will be upon the rope and tail. 

 This is an effectual remedy. The horse 

 will pull to save his tail — and he will 

 never repeat the operation again. A city 

 passenger railway in Philadelphia, which 

 owned nearly fifty baulky horses, gave 

 $ 1,000 for this receipt on condition that 

 it operated as recommended, and out of 

 the fifty horses forty-nine were completely 

 cured of "baulkiness" on the first trial. 



If a horse baulks and refuses to go 

 fonvard buckle, a strap around his fore 

 foot below the fetlock and pull gently but 

 firmly and steadily forward. It will not 

 be difficult to move forward the foot, and 

 the horse will be compelled to go forward 

 to recover his position. 



HORSES, Shoeing in Winter. — lv 

 Canada, where the winter is never of less 

 duration than five months, they shoe their 

 horses in the following manner, which 

 serves for the whole winter : The smith 

 fixes a small piece of steel on the fore- 

 part of each shoe, not tempered too hard, 

 which turns up about one-fourth of an 

 inch, in the shape of a horse's lancet ; the 

 same to the hinder-part of the shoe, 

 turned up a little higher than the fore- 

 part, tempered in the same manner. In 

 going up a hill the fore-part gives a pur- 

 chase that assists the horse, and in going 

 down prevents him sliding forward. 



HORSE, Itch.— To cure a horse afflict- 

 ed with itch, first reduce his daily allow- 

 ance of food, putting him on a low diet ; 

 and then give him a teaspoonful of a 

 mixture of equal parts of sulphur and 

 antimony, and at the end of a week or ten 

 days the sores will have disappeared, and 

 the horse will be covered with a fine coat 

 of new hair. 



HORSE, Collar, How to Fit.— An excel- 

 lent plan, and one that will not injure the 

 collar, is to dip it in water until the 

 leather is thoroughly wet, then put it on 

 the horse, secure the hames firmly, keep- 

 ing it there until it becomes dry. It is 

 all the better if heavy loads are to be 

 drawn, as that causes the collar to be 

 more 'evenly fitted to the neck and 

 shoulder. If possible, the collar should 

 be kept on from four to five hours, when 

 it will be perfectly dry, and retain the 

 same shape ever afterwards ; and as it is 

 exactly fitted to the form of the neck, will 

 not produce chafes nor sores on the 

 horse's neck. 



HORSE, When Unsound.— Any of the 

 following defects constitute unsoundness 

 in a horse : 



Lameness of all kinds and degrees. 

 Diseases of any of the internal organs. 

 Cough of every kind, as long as it exists. 

 Colds or catarrhs, while they last. Roar- 

 ing, broken wind, thick wind, grease, 

 mange, farcy and glanders; megrims or 

 staggers, founder, convex feet, contracted 

 feet, spavins and ringbones, enlargement 

 of the sinews or ligaments, cataracts and 

 other defects of the eyes, impairing sight. 



The following may or may not occasion 

 unsoundness, according to the state or 

 degree in which they exist : Corns, splints, 

 thrushes, bog-spavins, thorough-pins, wind 



