88 avery's own farrier. 



pro"ves the appetite. It is not what we eat that makes 



us strong, but what we digest. 



When you have done this, give him clean oats and hay, 

 And he will no longer be troubled in this way. 



THE LAMPASS. 



Cause. — Cutting teeth and indigestion in young horses; 

 and in old ones, it is owing to the teeth being worn off 

 short and uneven, whereby the mouth is irritated and 

 becomes swollen in the effort to masticate his food. 



Symptoms. — Swelling of the mouth and palate; and 

 he eats daintily, in consequence of the gum being below 

 the teeth. 



Cure. — Bleed in the mouth, by pricking several places 

 in the gum, just back of the pincher teeth, with a sharp 

 pointed knife, and give physic. If this does not have 

 the desired effect, then sear them down with a red hot 

 iron; burning the lampass just below the level of the 

 teeth, being careful not to let the hot iron touch the 

 teeth, nor to burn the gums but very little below the 

 face of them, for by so doing you cause a hole after it 

 heals up that will always make him drop his grain while 

 eating, more or less, through life. They should never be 

 hooked out deep with a hot iron, as some have been in 

 the habit of doing. After they have been properly 

 seared down, the horse should have salt and bran to lick 

 every day until it has healed up, and he will improve in 

 condition with remarkable rapidity. 



^ 



