Diseases of Animals 215 



Your horse has kidney affection, probably due to feeding hay 

 rich in alkalines. Treatment: Change the feed and give 1 quart 

 of thick flaxseed tea three times daily. 



Scours. 



Kindly recommoid a treatment for a Iwrsc troubled ivith scours. He 

 is on dry feed, but the trouble continues. 



Give very little water mornings and while worked, but give 

 plenty at night. Feed dry rolled oats, oat hay, one handful of whole 

 flaxseed at night, and the following powder: Bismuth subgalate, 

 4 ounces; iron sulphate, dessicated, 8 ounces; bismuth subnitrate, 

 8 ounces. Mix, and give a heaping teaspoonful each morning. 



Depraved Appetite. 



/ haz'e a colt about one year old that continually delights in chewing 

 up harness, ropes, chezvs on the manger and, in fact, anything it can get 

 a hold of. 



This is a condition caused by something being lacking in the 

 system (lime, salts, etc.). Give plenty of salt, good food, grain, etc. 

 Get this prescription: Iron sulphate, 2 ounces; soda syposulphate, 4 

 ounces; Gentian root pulv., 2 ounces; ginger, 1 ounce. Mix and give 

 teaspoonful daily. 



Good Dentist Needed. 



/ have an old horse which has ahvays been fat and quite full of life 

 until right lately. Now he is getting thin and looks bad. He eats his 

 food all right. I had his teeth fixed a feiv zveeks ago. The man said 

 they ivere bad and he fixed them as zvell as he could. 



There is probably an excessively long molar projecting into a 

 cavity and the projecting molar should be cut off by a qualified 

 veterinarian. The horse will begin to pick up and grow fat almost 

 as soon as the condition is relieved. Most horse owners will permit 

 every person with a float to ruin a horse's mouth without inquiring 

 whether the dentist possesses proper qualifications as certified by 

 a State license and diploma. 



Kidney Trouble. 



My horse has some trouble in passing zvater. What can I give him 

 that may be put in the mash? I don't think his trouble is due all to 

 old age, for it didn't come on gradually. 



Give gran, sal nitre: a teaspoonful daily in water is good to 

 stimulate the kidneys. 



For Chronic Indigestion. 



/ have given my horse condition powders for indigestion, but her 

 hair is rough still. Do you advise feeding on the road when a horse 

 leaves the stable at lo a. m., traveling continually for thirty miles, re- 

 turning 5:30 p. tn., being fed at 7 a. m.f 



