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great deal better tlian a pound of cure. Many 

 diseases might be prevented by being cautious 

 in their treatment 'to horses and keeping them 

 in- a healthy condition. This shoukl be done 

 by using the celebrated horse powders on page 

 60 J twice a year^ fall and spring. Say you feed 

 from 1 to 1 J pounds to each horse, each time, 

 fall and spring. If you. adopt this once you 

 will never depart from it afterward, as you will 

 find it to be a preventative of diseases and will 

 find so much improvement in your stock tliat 

 you will not depart from it. Every man that 

 has a horse should habit himself to sprinkle a 

 little salt on the feed every time he feeds his 

 horse. The salt is nourishing and is just as 

 much needed in the horse's food every meal as 

 it is needed on the food that a man eats. 



The Inflammation of the Lungs is another 

 dangerous disease. It is becoming to be a com- 

 mon disease among horses, and carries off its 

 thousands, simply because it is at first a sneak- 

 ing disease; the farmer and owner thinks very 

 little of it when it first makes its appearance, 

 and the truth is there are very few persons who 

 know anything about the disease, and if it is suf- 



