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SORE EYES. 



If the eyes are much inflamed, let blood in 

 the neck, then boil the bark of bass v/ood root 

 with rose leaves, sweeten the decoction with loaf 

 sugar, wash the horse's eyes three times a day 

 with this water, and keep him in a dark stable. 

 If films grow over the eye, dissolve ten grains of 

 white vitirol, and as much rock allum, in a gill of 

 spring water j dip a feather into it, and touch the 

 eye a few days with it, and it will eat away the 

 film. 



SCRATCHES. 



Horses are troubled with these most fre- 

 quently in the spring, while the roads lare nuiddy, 

 which obstructs the perspiration of the parts ; to- 

 gether with the snow water, which is very unfa- 

 vourable to this disorder. 



Cure. — Cut the hair off close, and wash the 

 legs with strong soap suds or urine ; put on a 

 turnip poultice (as this is the best I know of for 

 horses) a few days, mixed with hog's fat and lin- 

 seed oil ; it will soon effect a cure. 



FILING TEETH. 



When horses are old, their fore teeth grbw 

 long, while their jaw teeth wear short ; this pre- 

 vents the horses from grinding their hay ; and by 

 that means they grow poor and die, before their 

 natural vigour is exhausted. To remedy this in- 

 convenience, and prolong a serviceable life, pro- 

 vide a gag to put in his mouth, then a coarse file 

 — having gaged your horse, file his fore teeth so 

 short that his grinders may touch, and break the 

 hardest hay. 



This is an easy and certain method of making 

 old horses eat their hay equal to young ones ; 

 provided their jaw teeth are sound. 



