RECIPES. 679 



campane, two ounces; blue vitriol, one ounce; flaxseed meal, two ounces; saltpetre, 

 two ounces. Mix, and divide into eight powders. Moderate daily exercise and rub- 

 bing the limbs are useful. 



For Looseness or Scouring in Horses or Cattle. Tormentil root, powdered; 

 dose, for a horse or cow, one to one and one-half ounces. It may be stirred into one 

 pint of milk and given; or it may be steeped in one and one-half pints of milk, then 

 given from three to six times daily, until cured. 



Cough. Quit feeding musty hay, and feed roots and laxative food. Sprinkle 

 human urine on his fodder; or cut up cedar boughs and mix with his grain; or boil a 

 small quantity of flaxseed and mix it in a mash of scalded bran, adding a few ounces 

 of sugar, molasses, or honey. Administer lukewarm. If there should be any appear- 

 ance of heaves, put a spoonful of ground ginger once per day in his provender, and 

 allow him to drink freely of lime water. 



Ointment for Horses. Beeswax, two ounces; resin, two ounces; lard, four 

 ounces; carbolic acid, one drachm; honey, one-half ounce. Melt all together and 

 bring slowly to a boil; then remove from the fire, and add slowly one gill of spirits 

 of turpentine, stirring all the time until cool. Used with good success for galls, 

 cracked heels, flesh wounds, or bruises. 



Eye Water. Sugar of lead, one drachm; tincture of opium, two drachms; soft 

 water, one pint. Mix, and wash the eye two or three times a day. 



Splint, or Broken Hoof. Let the blacksmith bore two holes on each side of the 

 crack or split; pass along nails through the holes, and clinch tight. After anointing 

 with the hoof-bound liquid, it will soon grow together. 



For Sprains, etc. Hog's lard and spirits of turpentine. Mix, and place in the 

 hot sunshine for four or five days. Apply four or five times a week. 



CATTLE. 



Garget. Treatment. This is an inflammation of the internal substance of the 

 udder. One or more of the teats, or whole sections of the udder, become enlarged 

 and thickened, hot, tender, and painful. The simplest remedy, in mild cases, is to 

 put the calf to its mother several times a day. This will remove the flow of milk, 

 and often dispel the congestion. Sometimes the udder is so much swollen that the 

 cow will not permit the calf to suck; then a dose of purging medicine and frequent 

 washing of the udder, in mild cases, are usually successful. The physic should con- 

 sist of epsom salts, one pound; ginger, half an ounce; nitrate of potassa, half an 

 ounce; dissolved in a quart of boiling water; then add a gill of molasses, and give to 

 the cow lukewarm. Diet moderate; that is, on bran, or, if in summer, green food. 

 Rub thoroughly with camphorated spirits, three times a day, and milk several times a 

 day. 



Puerperal, or Milk Fever. Treatment. A pound to one and a half pounds of 

 epsom or Glauber's salts, according to the size and condition of the animal, should be 

 given, dissolved in a quart of boiling water; and, when dissolved, add pulverized red 

 pepper, a quarter of an ounce; caraway, ditto; ginger, ditto. Mix, and add a gill of 

 molasses, and give lukewarm. If this medicine does not act on the bowels, the 

 quantity of ginger, capsicum, and caraway must be doubled. The insensible stomach 

 must be aroused. When purging is begun in an early stage, the fever will more 

 readily subside. After the operation of the medicine, sedatives may be given, if 

 necessary. 



