RECIPES. 677 



may be known from the common scratches by the deep crack, which does not appear 

 in the common kind. Of course, this will fetch off the hair, but the disease has been 

 known to fetch off the hoof; then, to bring on the hair again, use salve made by 

 stewing sweet elder bark in old bacon. Then form the salve, by adding a little resin, 

 according to the amount of oil when stewed, about one-quarter pound to each pound 

 of oil. 



Contracted Hoof, or Sore Feet. No. I. Take equal parts of soft fat, yellow 

 wax, linseed oil, Venice turpentine, and Norway tar; first, melt the wax, then add the 

 others, mixing thoroughly. Apply to the edge of the hair once a day. 



No. 2. Benzine, one ounce; salts of nitre, one ounce; alcohol, three ounces; 

 aqua ammonia, two ounces; Venice turpentine, eight ounces. Mix. Apply to the 

 edge of the hair and all over the hoof once a day for ten days; then twice a week for 

 a short time. 



No. 3. Resin, four ounces; lard, eight ounces. Heat them over a slow fire. 

 Then take off and add powdered verdigris, one ounce, and stir well to prevent its 

 running over. When partly cool, add two ounces spirits of turpentine. Apply to 

 the hoof about one inch down from the hair. 



Favorite Recipes for Heaves. No. i. Assafcetida pulverized, one ounce; 

 camphor gum pulverized, one-half ounce. Mix, and divide into four powders. Feed 

 one every other night for a week. 



No. 2. Resin, two ounces; tartar emetic, two ounces; Spanish brown, two 

 ounces; cayenne, two ounces. Mix, and give two teaspoonfuls twice a day, in the 

 feed. 



No. 3. A horseman with whom I am acquainted says he has cured several cases 

 of heaves with oil tar. He gives the ordinary case a teaspoonful every night, or 

 every other night, by pouring it onto the tongue, and then giving some grain, which 

 carries it into the stomach. He says he has given very bad cases two or three table- 

 spoonfuls at a dose, with grand results. 



Distemper. Hops, two ounces; carbolic acid, thirty drops; boiling water, two 

 gallons. Mix the hops and carbolic acid with the boiling water, and compel the 

 animal to inhale the steam for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. Repeat three 

 times a day. Apply a strong mustard paste to the throat, and place a warm poultice 

 over the paste. Feed warm mashes and boiled vegetables. Keep the stable com- 

 fortably warm and the air pure. Give the following powders once a day : Powdered 

 Peruvian bark, two ounces; powdered gentian, one ounce; powdered copperas, one 

 ounce. Mix, and divide into eight powders. 



Founder cured in Twenty-four Hours. Boil or steam stout oat-straw for 

 half an hour. Then wrap it around the horse's leg, quite hot. Cover up with wet 

 woollen rags, to keep in the steam. In six hours renew the application. Take one 

 gallon of blood from the neck vein, and give one quart of linseed oil. He may be 

 worked next day. 



Cure for Staggers. Give a mess twice a week, composed of bran, one gallon; 

 sulphur, one tablespoonful; saltpetre, one teaspoonful; boiling sassafras tea, one 

 quart; assafoetida, one and one-eighth ounces. Keep the horse from cold water for 

 half a day afterwards. 



Cracked Heels. Tar, eight ounces; beeswax, one ounce; resin, one ounce; 

 alum, one ounce; tallow, one ounce; sulphate of iron, one ounce; carbolic acid, 

 one drachm; mix and boil over a slow fire. Skim off the filth and add two ounces 

 of the scraping of sweet elder. 



