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saltpetre, alum and sulphur; pulverize and mix them to- 

 gether and feed a tablespoon full once a week. 



No. 4. Give a spoonfull twice a week of pure ground 

 mustard, and if the horse is habitually costive, add, once 

 a week, a spoonfull of sulphur. 



A change of food occasionally is beneficial to the 

 horse, but it should be so regulated as not to feed at one 

 time very light and loosening food, and at another time 

 heavy kinds of grain. For instance: not to feed for 

 any length of time all roots, apples, &c., and then break 

 off from the roots, and feed nothing but grain. A 

 mixed diet is preferable. The grain you feed with roots 

 you get the full benefit of, for the peptic acid contained 

 in the roots causes a thorough digestion of the graiij. 

 Judicious feeding and driving will do much towards pre- 

 venting diseases. "And it is cheaper to pay the butcher 

 than the doctor." When you feed clear corn, new 

 or old, give it to them on the ear, or boil it if you 

 choose. If you have it ground, make it into pudding by 

 scalding it, but do not feed dry meal, for it is too often 

 destructive. And verily I say unto you not to feed cob 

 meal at all, for this is too clogging and hard of diges- 

 tion, and contains too much alkali for the horse; it often 

 bakes in the maw and kills them. 



Swelled Legs, — Some horses are troubled with swollen 

 legs, caused by long standing in the stable without exer- 

 cise, or when first brought in from grazing in the fall of 

 the year. When this is the case, give sulphur in small 

 quantities daily for a week; give also, twice in the week, 

 some powdered sassafras bark. In the mean time rub 

 the leg once a day for a week with the following: 



