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pint. Previous to the application, wash with soft soap and hot 

 water, and dry thoroughly. The washing need only take place before 

 the first application of the lotion, which is to be used twice or thrice 

 a-day. 



No. 4. — Apply benzoline to the parts rubbed bare : it will stay 

 the itching, and destroy any vermin lodged about the parts. If 

 worms are suspected, give, by means of a horn, a mixture composed 

 of turpentine and linseed oil, of each 4oz. ; liquor potassse, Idr. ; 

 soft water, a pint ; to be well shaken together, each hornful ; in a 

 few days after a dose of aloetic medicine. If seat-worms, inject 

 turpentine, loz, ; linseed oil, 4oz. ; laudanum, loz. ; the yolks of a 

 couple of eggs, all beaten up together, with a quarter of a 

 pint of water, sufficiently hot to make the whole milk- warm. Or 

 bruise and boil ^oz. of cocculus indicus in a pint of water for 

 a few minutes ; strain, and when sufficiently cool inject same as 

 above. 



No. 5. — Use strong acetic acid (wood vinegar). It is also an ex- 

 cellent remedy for irritation and eruptions on the skin. 



No. 6. — Take new buttermilk, bottle it, tie it down tight in a 

 soda-water bottle, and leave it in a hot place to ferment for three or 

 four days, and then have it rubbed well into the skin of the mane 

 and tail. 



No. 7. — The habit of rubbing the tail may generally be prevented 

 by pulling the cloth so far over the hind quarters that the tail 

 shall be covered to half its length. 



No. 8. — Turpentine well rubbed in two or three times a week is a 

 specific. Some add to the turpentine tincture of cantharides in the 

 proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter ; or 

 turpentine and neatsfoot oil in equal proportions. 



No. 9. — loz. of sulphate of copper (powdered) added to 4oz. of 

 powdered linseed, aud a sufficient quantity of lard added to form a 

 mass. Divide it into loz. balls, one to be given every other day. 



SANDCEACK. 



Sandcrack is a fissure of the hoof, extending from above down- 

 wards. Both hind and fore feet are liable to these fissures, and they 

 may occur at various parts. In the fore-feet they are generally 

 found at the inside quarter. "WHien found in the hind-feet, it is 

 generally cart-horses that are effected, and the fissure occurs at the 

 front of the foot. Sandcracks, however, may occur in other parts. 

 The fissure sometimes extends but partially through the wall of the 

 foot, when it will probably not occasion any lameness, and by 



