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strong tea made of cayenne pepper. It is too well known, 

 that colts having many lice on them can not thrive 

 well, for me to say anything about it, further than to 

 give a remedy that will destroy them, which is the great 

 desideratum in the case. Two washings, four days 

 apart, is sufficient to kill the nits. 



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CHAPTER X. 



SCRATCHES, OR GREASE. 

 *' Small things, make larger ones." 



This is a very troublesome disease in horses ; and un- 

 less cured immediately on being discovered, it soon 

 renders them unfit for use, and will be the more difficult 

 to cure. 



Cause. — Exposure to wet and cold weather, fevers 

 and the like, and not having their feet and legs properly 

 cleaned after being driven in the mud, leaving a sluggish 

 circulation, whereby the extremities suffer most, creat- 

 ing heat (fever) in the heels, &c. 



Symptoms. — The legs swell, the heels look red, crack, 

 and become very sore, and the horse is pained on being 

 exercised j and finally grows lamer until he is unfit for 

 service. 



Cure. — If of long standing, and bad, take from two to 

 three quarts of blood from the neck vein ; repeat if ne- 

 cessary in a week's time; give daily, doses of sulphur 

 .in small quantities, and an ounce of oil of sassafras, in 



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