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horses are subject is ringworm. When a horse suffers from this 

 complaint, circular patches of bare skin appear, owing to the 

 hairs breaking off at the roots. The treatment is similar to 

 that prescribed for parasitic mange. RingAvorm is contagious, 

 and transmitted from one horse to another by means of har- 

 ness, saddles, and grooming brushes. Care must therefore 

 be exercised not to transfer the complaint from one horse to 

 another. 



Surfeit. — The complaint known as surfeit consists in an 

 eruption of small lumps or boils on the horse's body and neck. 

 These boils are painful to the touch, and, after two or three 

 days, scabs are formed on tliem which drop off after a time. 

 Surfeit is brought on through improper feeding and over- 

 feeding on too rich food. Treatment consists in putting the 

 horse on a. fairly laxative and reduced diet, which includes 

 plenty of bran-mashes and roots or gi'een forage, and in giving 

 a pint of linseed oil as a drench. A one-ounce dose of bicar- 

 bonate of soda should also be given in the food once a day. 

 Some mercurial ointment should be applied to the boils. 



Sore Shoulders. — Sore shoulders are caused through 

 the harness collar galling them. The best preventive of this 

 complaint is a properly fitting and well stuffed and well 

 lined collar. Slight cases may be treated by bathing with a 

 strong solution of alum in water several times a day, and keep- 

 ing the animal out of harness until better. Other cases may 

 be relieved by applying Friar's balsam or boracic ouitmcnt. 

 If there is any swelling on the shoulders after work, some 

 whisky or methylated spirits should be well rubbed in, the 

 rubbino- beinof continued for about ten minutes. In the case 

 of young horses that are being broker in to the collar, it is 

 a good plan to sponge the shoulders with a solution of salt hi 

 water after return from work, as this treatment hardens the 

 skin, and acts as a preventive to sore shoulders to some 

 extent. 



Sore Ba.cks are caused through the part being galled by 



