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Take one pint of hog's fat, one pint of molasses, 

 and one pint of mustard seed ground line ; mix 

 these all together ; give them to the creature 

 blood warm — wait three hours, and if there is no 

 movement, give from a half a pound to a pound 

 of salts put in warm water, according to the con- 

 stitution and disorder of the creature. After 

 waiting a proper time, repeat the salts if needed. 



The symptoms of the Water Garget, 



Are sinking eyes, of a yellow cast, dry 

 nose — often if the side is stroked, it will rattle 

 like parchment. Cure — Take from a common 

 creature a pint and a half of blood ; then mea- 

 sure a pint of smart weed and a pint of hoar- 

 hound, by pressing each into a pint dish tight ; 

 simmer these two pints, and get the tea out well, 

 and give this to the creature. Repeat this dose 

 three mornings. This we have not known to 

 fail. 



The symptoms of the Yellow garget, 



Is the loss of the cud, from the stomach being 

 too weak to raise ; the lights are full of filthy, 

 frothy matter — the joints are quite weak. Cure, 

 Take half a pint of garget root, and half a pint of 

 garlicks, boil these in a quart of new milk ; give 

 this to them ealy in the morning for three morn- 

 ings — we always find it to be a cure. 



For the Castration of Horses, 

 Let the sign be in the feet or legs, or therea- 

 bouts. When you cut him, do not strain the 

 string, but take a piece oF twine and tie the 

 middle of the twine round a piece of salt pork, 

 an inch long, and half an inch wide, and tie this 

 round the string of the horse, half an inch above 

 where you cut off the stone, and then cut off the 



