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TO RECRUIT A HORSE HIDE-BOUND OR OTHERWISE 

 OUT OF SORTS. 



Nitrate potassa (or saltpeter), 4 oz.; crude antimony, 

 I oz.; sulphur, 3 oz. Nitrate of potassa and antimony- 

 should be finely pulverized, then add the sulphur, and mix 

 the whole well together. Dose: A tablespoonful of the 

 mixture in a bran mash daily, for a week or two. 



This will be found an excellent remedy. It was given me 

 ten years ago, by Dr. T. Burton, of Fultonville, N. Y., (one 

 )f the most successful of medical practitioners, and not only 

 one of the best horsemen with whom, in my varied experi- 

 ence, I have become acquainted, but one of the best men I 

 have ever met, and to whose interest and encouragement I 

 am more than to any other single cause indebted for my great 

 success. It was by this gentleman's advice that I made a se- 

 ries of models with which to illustrate the principles of shoe- 

 ing, which have so often since been admired by horsemen. 

 There are a few chance acquaintances I have made during 

 the inception of a checkered career in my profession, the 

 icmembrance of whom becomes at all times only a growing 

 sc-arce of pleasure and encouragement, but chief of them 

 all stands this gentleman, whose encouraging predictions I 

 now lake the liberty of acknowledging in this connection, 

 as an assurance of my continued appreciation of his inter- 

 est so long ago, and that I have done the best I could to 

 prove worthy of his high, flattering assurance of my future 

 success. ) 



CRACKED HEELS. 



Two ounces resin, 2 ounces copperas, 2 ounces alum, 

 I ounce beeswax, i pint tar, size hen's egg of tallow; boil 

 over a slow fire, skim off the filth and add the scrapings of 

 sweet elder a handful ; when cool, fit for use. 



This is the best local application for cracked heels or 

 stuffing of the heels that I have ever used, and is in fact 

 one of the very best of healing preparations. 



Six years ago, in Ohio, Turco had an aggravated crack- 

 ing and stuffing of heels of so bad a character th^t I feared 

 stuffing of the hoofs. In defiance of all the treatment I 

 could then think of for cure, I was compelled to poultice, 

 ai«d did "jo continually, using a variety of preparation.*? 



