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General good healthy condition is necessary for breeding. This general 

 good condition is always secured where the animals are given Stock Tonic 

 occasionally for tonic, alterative treatment. Stock Tonic is an excellent 

 regulator, and puts the whole system in working order. It especially acts 

 on the. organs of digestion and acts also on the walls of the blood vessels, 

 increasing their contractile power. It bXiilds health by stimulating natural 

 functions; hence its common-sense efficiency. 



BITES OF Apply Conkey's Pain Lotion, to relieve all itching and reduce 

 INSECTS swelling. Pure Nox-i-cide can also be used if more convenient. 

 Regular use of Conkey's Fly Knocker during the season of 

 insect pests will protect your animals in the first place. 



BIT Keep the bit out of the mouth, and heal the sores with daily 



SORES swabbing with Nox-i-cide solution, using one teaspoonful in a 

 pint of water. Then put in a soft bit, and take care not to draw in 

 too tight to the angle of the mouth with the check-pieces of the bridle. 



BLINDNESS The most common eye trouble is periodic ophthalmia or 

 "moon-blindness." Attacks usually come at night, and there 

 is redness, tearing, sometimes a scum or blur over the eye, with the pupil 

 contracted and slow to respond. After ten days or a fortnight the sight 

 comes back but the blind attack will return periodically. After five to eight 

 attacks cataract develops and the condition of blindness is then permanent. 

 There is no way of curing this kind of blindness, or any way of preventing 

 the return of attacks; but you can lengthen the period between attacks, and 

 hence prolong the usefulness of the animal as follows: 



Treatment Look to sanitation in the stable, for unhygienic surroundings 

 have a good deal to do with periodic ophthalmia. Damp or wet 

 surroundings increase the trouble. Low vitality favors it; hence the horse 

 must be well cared for in general. It is supposed to be transmissible; so an 

 animal with moon-blindness should not be bred. Keep the horse in a dark 

 stall during the attack, or hang a dark cloth over the head. Apply to the 

 eye Conkey's Eye Remedy, using a sprayer or a camel's hair brush or 

 perfectly clean feather, or irrigate it with a medicine dropper, or simply swab 

 with a piece of sterile absorbent cotton. Treat the general condition by 

 giving Conkey's Stock Tonic, mixed with the regular feed, using 3 table- 

 spoonfuls of Stock Tonic so as to keep the bowels active. If necessary to 

 purge, give aloes or 1 quart of raw linseed oil. 



Prevention Experiments and all observations seem to show that horses 

 kept in sanitary stables, with good light, good general care, 

 good food, etc., never have the first attack. After one attack, you can help 

 the general condition, lessen the pain of the attack and lengthen intervals 

 between attacks, but you cannot permanently cure. Look out for claims 

 to the contrary. We have never known a horse kept in good general condi- 

 tion and with Conkey's Stock Tonic used in the feed occasionally for tonic, 

 alterative treatment, that developed periodic ophthalmia Stock Tonic insures 

 good general healthful condition and acts as a preventative of the first attack. 

 We should like to hear from horse owners with their experience. 

 For description of other eye trouble read under Eyes. 



BLOOD OUT Symptoms vary, such as itching, swelling, etc. Sometimes 



OF ORDER actual sores or eruptions. Usually the horse shows a 



rough coat and general unthrifty condition. If there are 



sores, dust the surface with Conkey's Healing Powder as directed. To 



