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inflamed parts, that would otherwise, in his natural gait, 

 be very painful to him. True, these organs in the horse 

 are very little prone to disease ; if observed, however, 

 and you find him suffering apparently as he travels, give 

 half an ounce of sweet nitre in his mash, for two or three 

 nights successively; let him remain without work during 

 that time. Feed nothing but cooling food, no grain ; 

 warm mashes, or grass (if to be had) ; keep his strength 

 up by mashes of ship-stuff; if grass cannot be had, feed 

 carrots instead. If he gets no better, then send for a 

 regular practitioner. A teaspoonful of pulverized rosin 

 sometimes has a happy effect, if the obstruction is not great. 



BRITTLE HOOFS. 



Often an otherwise valuable horse has feet that will not 

 hold a nail for any length of time, and has to be sent to 

 the smith-shop once a week to have new nails put in, 

 and shoes removed ; all this is necessarily attended with 

 great expense, and the foot at last becomes so bad that 

 the horse is useless. The cure is as simple as it is certain. 

 Have a tin or earthen vessel standing in the stable out of 

 the way of your horse; let it be said to contain a gallon, 

 more or less ; every morning let it be filled with cham- 

 ber lye, a stick, some three feet long with some rags 

 fastened at the end, put in it ; with this let your groom 

 swab your horse's feet as often as he pleases, at least a 

 dozen times a day, keeping them stopped meanwhile with 

 cow-droppings or flaxseed-meal. Feed cooling food, and 

 in a few weeks your horse's feet will be perfectly sound, 

 when the practice can be discontinued. 



CLIPPING. 



On this subject much has been said pro and con. All 

 I shall say is simply that a horse used for light purposes, 

 to be speeded often on the track or road, causing great 



