MISCELLANEOUS. 



MEDICINE. 



I AM decidedly opposed to giving medicine, as my 

 readers may have judged ere this, unless it be a little 

 Glauber's salt in their food. The drenching and balling 

 done by grooms is not to be allowed on any consideration. 

 Sometimes in ignorance they severely injure a horse's 

 throat, to say nothing of the permanent injury the dosing 

 may do him. It may be rank poison for all they know, 

 it is a ball to them, that's enough, down it is rammed. 



I must confess that in the spring, weather just getting 

 hot enough to produce languor or weakness, I like to feed 

 a mixture, as thus: two tablespoons of hickory ashes (or 

 oak) wood ashes, one spoon pulverized alum, and one 

 fine-cut tobacco, what they call cut-and-dry, mix all 

 together and feed in their chop at night. It strengthens the 

 digestive powers and destroys worms. Certainly I never 

 knew it do any harm. 



A tea made from the bark and berry of common spice- 

 wood, welt boiled, and mixed with a horse's chop, is also 

 an excellent thing for both stomach and blood. 



ACUTE FOUNDER. 



This should never occur to a gentleman's horse ; but 

 for fear that it should, it may be as well to know some- 

 thing about its cause, treatment, and so on. First, over- 

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