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If the animal has been fed on dry food, let him have a 

 mixture of boiled oats, shorts, and carrots, well 

 seasoned with salt, to which add daily half a table- 

 spoonful of white mustard-seed ; i pint of pale brandy 

 to 4 ounces of fine salt — dose, a wine-glass, in oatmeal 

 gruel, night and morning, just before meals. The 

 animal must not be permitted to spend half his time 

 eating. Attention must also be paid to the water 

 which the animal drinks. Throw a handful of pul- 

 verized charcoal, daily, into the water-trough. This 

 will improve the very worst kind. 



WARTS, 



These excrescences, arising from the cuticular 

 covering of the skin, are sometimes very annoying to 

 horses, especially when occurring about the eye, 

 sheath, penis, or on parts which come in contact with 

 the harness. 



Treatment, — A wart having a broad base should be 

 treated in the following manner: Take a oommon 

 suture needle, and ai'ra it with a double ligature — each 



