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as hot as you can bear your hand in it. This 

 also will cure bone spavins in the first stages of 

 them. The horse must not be used while doc- 

 toring. , 



Mr. WHITTIER'S RECEIPTS, OF N. H. 



For the Murrain in Cattle. 



A quart of blood has been taken from the lar- 

 gest kind, and from the lesser in proportion. 

 Fumigate their head with brimstone and old 

 shoes, over a little fire, two or three times a day. 



-4 aire for the Bois in Horses, if they have not got 



through the maw. 



A quart of good dye stuff has given immedi- 

 ate relief. 



For the Bots. 



Half a pound of salts dissolved in w^arm water, 

 has given immediate relief. There is one kind 

 of bots that work in the great gut, close to the 

 butt. 



For a stoppage or Dry Belly Ache in a Horse, 



• Take a pot that holds a paii full and a half, or 

 more — pack it full of clover hay and water — - 

 boil it down to two or three quarts, and pour it 

 down the horse — it will physic through him, and 

 give immediate relief. 



For a stoppage in the manifold of a neat creature. 



It generally proceeds from strains, taking cold, 

 and low keeping, which causes the wind to stop, 

 and the creature loses his appetite, swells mod- 

 erately, and has a rattUng in his throat more than 

 they have with the overflowing of the gall. Cure, 



