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sive and long-contimiccl wetness to extreme dryness. The best treatnieni id 

 to rub the soles and shells of the feet with a mixture composed of the fol- 

 lowing: Tar, two parts; beef suet, two parts; whale oil, four parts; beeswax 

 and honey, one part each; melt over a slow tire, and mix well. 



Ignornnce in Shoeing. — Some blacksmiths who shoe horses do not 

 know that the frog of the foot should be allowed to come to the ground; that 

 it should not be pared down, as is frequently done, nor should it be touched 

 when healthy. It is meant to pound upon the ground, and it is the pound- 

 ing that it gets that is the life of the foot, and tliosc horse-shoers who have 

 not yet learned this very important fact ought to learn it or quit business. 

 Most of the diseases and defects of horses' feet come from cutting away the 

 frog or by raising it by high shoes clear away from the ground. 



Avoiding Indigestion in Horses. — It is best to give a horse water be- 

 fore giving oats. The water stays in the stomach a very short time, but is 

 quickly absorbed or passed into the bowels, where it is absorbed and goes 

 into the blood. The horse secretes a very large quantity — more than four 

 quarts — of saliva while eating a meal, which is sufficient to reduce the food 

 to a pulp suitable for its digestion. So that to give water soon after eating, 

 except in very small quantity, would bo apt to cause indigestion and waste 

 of the food by excessive dilution. 



Flies and Horses. — A physician writing to the London Daily News 

 recommends, to prevent the torment inflicted by the flies on horses, applica- 

 tion to the latter, before harnessing, of a mixture of one part crude carboUo 

 acid with six or more parts of olive oil. This should be rubbed lightly all 

 over the animal with a rag, and applied more thickly to the interior of tha 

 ears and other jDarts most likely to be attacked. 



To Cool Horses Wlien Hot.—There is danger of congestion when colJ 

 water is thrown on the body of a horse when veiy hot and tii-ed; and yet, 

 how many do it ? The better way is to thi-ow water freely on the fore legs 

 of the animal. This corresponds to the well-known custom of persons, when 

 overheated, bathing the wrists for some time before drinking much. 



To Recruit a Hide-Bound Horse. — To recruit a hide bound horse, give 

 nitrate potassa (or saltpetre), four ounces; crude antimony, one ounce; 

 sulphur, three ounces. Nitrate of potassa and antimony should be finely 

 pulverized, then add the sulphur, and mix the whole well together. Dose 

 a tablespoonful of the mixtui-e in a bran mash daily. 



Sprains and Bruises in Horses. — Dissolve an ounce of camphor in ; 



eight ounces of spirits of wine; then add one ounce of spirits of turpentine, \ 

 one ounce of spirits of sal ammonia, half an ounce of oil of origanum and aj 

 tablespoonful of laudanum. Hub in a quarter of an hour with the hand, four j 

 times a day. 



Flies In Horse Staliles. — It is said that kerosene oil slightly sprinkled : 

 on the floor of the horao stables will serve to abate the nuisance of flies. It 

 may be shaken out of a bottle through a hole in the cork. A piut will last a 

 week for the purpose. 



Hemlock Cribs. — A horse will not bite a crib made of hemlot'k lumb(!r, 

 nor will rats, mice, or other vermin gnaw through it. 



