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pint of linseed or castor oil, half an ounce of oil of 

 sassafras. Feed light; give bran mash with one table- 

 spoonful of cream tartar for a few nights. 



SCOURS. 



This is a disease which requires no description — 

 you will know it when it comes. It is tiie same as 

 cholera in a man, but is usually easy to manage. In 

 a warm climate it is very dangerous, as two-thirds of 

 the horses taken with it die in three or four days. 



Cure. — Boil red or white oak bark to a strong ooze; 

 put two tablespoonfuls of cream of tartar to one quart 

 of this decoction; give to drink or as a drench — then 

 use the bark water for injection. Keep this up until 

 the purging is stopped, then give a mash of scalded 

 wheat bran twice a day. Give no hay or grain, or you 

 will cause a relapse. He will have a good appetite, but 

 be very careful for several days, and when you com- 

 mence feeding, feed very light. A positive cure, if 

 directions are carefully followed. 



GREASE. 



In many cases, swelled leg, although distinct from 

 grease, degenerates into it. This disease is inflamma- 

 tion of the skin of the heel, and very seldom comes on 

 the fore legs. The skin of the heel has a peculiar 

 greasy feeling, and when inflamed the secretion of this 

 greasy matter is stopped. The heels become red, dry 

 and scurvy, and being so much in motion they very 

 soon crack, and sometimes ulceration and fungus will 

 extend over the whole heel. The first appearance of 

 grease is usually a dry scurvy state of the skin of 

 the heel. They should be washed with soap and 

 water, and relieved 'of all the hard substance that 

 they can by soaking; then wipe dry, and sprinkle 



