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or lame horses, you are not exempt any more than your 

 neighbors, unless it is because you have learned to take 

 better care of them. And then you will please remember 

 the text, that an ounce of preventive, is worth a pound 

 of cure. And I am sure that it is easier paid for, when 

 two pounds of the former can be had at a less cost than 

 one ounce of the latter. 



No. 91. — Another Recipe for Condition Powders. 



To raise and animate the drooping spirits of a very 

 sick horse, perhaps there is nothing better in the world, 

 than the remedy given under the caption of Renewal of 

 Life. And to strengthen the digestive organs, and re- 

 store good health and prime condition, after any kind of 

 fever, inflammation, &c., the following is a good remedy: 

 Take equal parts of ground mustard, grated liquorice 

 root, and the filings of deer's horns; these should be all 

 newly powdered, and then add to one part of each, two 

 parts of the flour of the elm bark; if there is a cough, 

 add elecampane root (a small part), which may be 

 scented with anise, &c. Give a tablespoonfull every 

 morning, for four or five days — except in urgent cases, 

 give twice a day — in a mash of bran or soaked oats; if 

 the animal refuses to eat it prepared in this way, fix a 

 new dose, and give it in a pint of water, wnth a horn or 



bottle. 



No. 92. — A Simple Digestive, 



Or restorative, merely to assist digestion and cleanse 



the stomach, as many other diseases proceed from this 



cause alone, give the horse a tablespoonfull of powdered 



charcoal, and a teaspoonfull of peppermint essence in a 



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