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water, and they will get well. Be careful that 

 hay chaff does not get in and prevent their healing. 



For the Bots hi Horses. 



It is said that poplar bark and white' ash bark, 

 pulverized and mixed with provender and given 

 to horses, ^vill cure the bots. 



Another for the Bots. 

 When they trouble a horse the}' may be driveii 

 back with s])irits of turpentine ; or they may be 

 struck off the maw with your fist by striking 

 smartly a number of times : the horse will show 

 where they are. Then make a tea of a bunch of 

 hemlock boughs as big as you would have for a 

 broom. Strain the tea and put into it one quart 

 of rye ; then boil them sufficiently long for the 

 tea to soak into the rye. Give this to the horse 

 immediately after the bots have been drove back. 

 Give him the like dose three times in the course 

 of one or two days. It is said to be an effec- 

 tual remedy. 



Another for iht Bats. ' 



Either bleed the horse in the mouth so that he 

 may swallow a pint of blood, or give him three 

 pints of sweetened milk ; after you have done 

 one of these, wait an hour, then give him half a 

 pint of flax-seed oil ; after a short time give him 

 another half pint of the oil. 



Another for the Bots or Jl^orms. 



• Take a tumbler full of savine boughs, cut fine, 

 mix them with meal, or his,-,pro vender when you 

 give it to him. 



Another remedy for the Bols, 

 A strong decoction of dogwood, sometimes 



