74 avery's own farrier. 



for the mouth, two or three times a day, until the cure is 

 effected. 



THE USE OF BLANKETS FOR THE HORSE. 

 An ounce of preventive, is worth a pound of cure. 

 The great difficulty with the horse, in this respect, is 

 the liability he is subject to by sudden changes from heat 

 to cold, and from cold to heat; and when a horse is very 

 hot, or very cold, he should be allowed to come to his 

 natural feeling and warmth by degrees, for he is as often 

 injured by being too hot, as by being too cold. Now a 

 horse should never be driven until he is warm and 

 sweaty, and then allowed to stand in the cold wind (with 

 or without a blanket) until he gets chilly. Blankets -are 

 very necessary and useful if properly used, but, if not so 

 employed, they had better not be used at all. Some 

 people do great injury to their horses with them, while 

 intending to benefit their horses; for instance, when a 

 horse has been driven until he is quite hot, they will, im- 

 mediately after stopping him, put on a blanket, and 

 sometimes two or three, or perhaps a buffalo robe; this 

 confines all the sweat and steam to the body, which is 

 very injurious to the lungs, &c., often causing the horse 

 to take cold^ and leave him with a settled cough — and 

 thus they kill him wiih kindness; but when a horse 

 comes in heated in this way, he should be well rubbed, 

 and allowed to stand until the perceptible evaporation 

 has nearly escaped from the body, and then covered up 

 with a good blanket before they begin to feel cold; they 

 will thereby be benefited, and saved from many diseases 

 Ihat arise from an untimely use of the blanket. 



