160 The Horse Farrier. 



wliich adheres to the tongue, and is conveyed with the 

 food into the stomach. There it clinors to the cuticular 

 portion of the stomach, by means of a hook on either 

 side of its mouth ; and its hold is so firm and so obsti- 

 nate, that it most be broken before it can be detached. 

 It remains there feeding on the mucus of the stomacli 

 during the whole of the winter, and until the end of the 

 ensuing spring ; when, having attained a considerable 

 size, and being destined to undergo a certain transforma- 

 tion, it disengages itself from the cuticular coat, is car- 

 ried into the villous portion of the stomach with the food, 

 passes out of it with the chyme, and is evacuated with 

 the dung. 



Treatment. — In most cases, if the horse be allowed 

 to^ run for a short time at grass, when the bots have at- 

 tained their full growth, and exercise an independent life, 

 they will pass off with the excrement. The compound 

 for the expulsion of the bots will be found useful, when 

 they are found at neck of the throat : 



No. 2. Drench freely with sweet milk and molasses, 

 (sugar or honey will do,) well shaken together. Contin- 

 ue it, a bottle full every fifteen or twenty minutes, accord- 

 ing to the severity of the attack, until the animal becomes 

 easy ; then give a quart bottle full of strong salt and wa- 

 ter, followed soon after with a quart bottle of Castor Oil. 

 It is worse than idle to give anything with the view of 

 killing the bots in a horse. The only plan is to coax them 

 off. 



No. 3. Make a tea of sage, sweeten it well, when about 

 milk warm drench your horse with it. If it turns out to 

 be colic and not bots, the sage will be good for that. 



No. 4. As soon as it is discovered that a horse has 

 symptoms of bots, give a half pint of warm, sweet milk, 

 just drawn from a cow, and a half pint of molasses. In 

 15 minutes after, give a strong tea made of elder bark, 

 and sage, to which add a half an ounce of alum. This is 

 given as a drench. In half an hour after, give the horse 

 a portion of physic. 



