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B. P. Ware stated that he had never known a tlatfooted 

 horse suffer from contraction of hoof. 



Albert Kimball of Bradford, would rather have his 

 horses go bare than to touch their hoofs with hot iron. 

 He believed in washing a horse's hoofs, and further that 

 the vernicular disease and contraction could be cured, 

 disagreeing with Mr. Stiles on those points. 



James P. King of Peabody, broke a horse from running 

 away by letting the animal run up hill and making him 

 run until he was glad to stop from exhaustion. He cured 

 a horse of colic by giving him two heaping spoonfuls of 

 black pepper in warm water. 



J. E. Page, foreman of Dr. Loring's farm, Salem, where 

 some seventy horses are wintered, gave some experiences. 

 The shoes are taken off their feet and they are allowed to 

 run barefooted two to three hours every day all winter. 

 They are given cut feed, ten or twelve pounds of hay 

 with four quart mixture of grain and oats. 



Quite a discussion was raised as to the best remedy for 

 curing horses of worms. Among the medicines named 

 were white mustard seed, wood ashes (two quarts mixed 

 with feed for a dose), savin berries, dogwood bark (three 

 or four ounces for a dose), cayenne pepper and sulpher. 

 Garget and salt petre often used for cows, are death to 

 horses. 



The address for the afternoon, on " The Progress of 

 Agriculture," by Edmund Hersey of Hingham, owing to 

 the failure of his appearance, was given by President 

 Ware, in an extemporaneous speech, in which he said that 

 agriculture had its ups and downs, but history showed a 

 successful nation to be one whose agriculture is prosper- 

 ous, and where it is a failure that country is on the de- 

 cline. In corn culture the Pilgrims took lessons from the 

 Indian, scratching places in the rough ground to drop the 

 seed, putting a fish in each, for a fertilizer, Next, a high 

 hill was thought necessary for its successful cultivation, 

 and now level cultivation is deemed best. The hard work 

 formerly done with scythe and hoe is now done by ma- 



