FARCY. ] 09 



It may sometimes happen that a horse's mouth will 

 become sore before the expiration of a week, when 

 taking the balls and using the ointment. Whenever 

 this is discovered, stop with the balls, and add sulphur 

 to the mashes, which will readily remove the soreness 

 about the mouth. 



The farcy is so contagious that it often destroys 

 horses of every description upon a plantation, and 

 leaves the plough of industry standing still in the far- 

 mer's field. Not long since, a gentlemen in the county 

 of Sussex, lost upwards of forty horses by this fatal 

 disease, without being able to save one. For the 

 Denefit of those who have more than one horse, I 

 would recommend the use of asafbetida in the manger, 

 watering bucket, and to the bridle bit, to prevent the 

 farcy from dealing out destruction to their whole 

 stock. I have made a fair experiment with this simple 

 preventive, by placing a horse violently affected with it, 

 and which fell a victim to it, in the same stable with 

 one in health, without any ill consequences resulting 

 from their contiguous situation. 



The farcy has visited several farms within the 

 United States, with effects so dreadful, as not only to 

 desti'oy every one of the species, without respect to 

 age, but even occupied in triumph the walks and 

 resting places of its prey. Nor could the disease be 

 diverted from its stand, or completely eradicated, until 

 stables, shelters, pens, litter, straw, &c. &c. were 

 entirely consumed and reduced to ashes. 



