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To prevent Flies from teasing Horses. — Take sorrel 

 leaf, about in the proportion of tea, and steep in water. 

 Clean the horse, and then, with a sponge, wash him 

 thoroughly before going out. Walnut leaves or penny- 

 royal soaked over night, then boiled, and applied in the 

 above manner, will answer a like purpose. 



Warts. — Colls, while growing, sometimes have warts 

 come on them, which very much disfigure and hurt their 

 looks, if they do not otherwise injure them. I have 

 known the owner of one of these animals say he would 

 give ten dollars if he knew how to take off that wart, 

 and not hurt the horse. My remedy will not cost you 

 ten cents to take off the largest wait you ever saw. 



They can be removed thus: take a quantity of ash 

 bark off the tree commonly known as the swamp ash, 

 which, on being reduced to ashes, and applied once in 

 twenty-four hours, wet, in the form of a poultice, will 

 in a few days remove the excrescence; in repeating, the 

 ashes covering the wart should be carefully removed by 

 washing it with soap suds made of hard soap; when it 

 is eaten entirely out, then dress it as you would any other 

 wound, to heal it up. ' This is much safer than to use the 

 knife. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



FOR WEAKNESS ACROSS THE LOINS, OR DERANGEMENT OF 

 THE URINARY ORGANS, AND GRAVEL OR STONE IN THE 

 BLADDER. 



In cases of this kind, people are very apt to mistake, 

 or err in judgment, as to the real cause of the animal's 



