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wash the eyes for two or three mornings with salt and 

 water, bathe his legs up to his belly in equal parts of 

 warm vinegar, spirit and oil, or fresh butter, and give 

 a mash of one and a half gallons of bran or oats, one 

 table spoonful flour of sulphur, one tea spoonful salt- 

 petre, and the cure will be performed in all probability 

 in four or five days. 



Great care should be taken not to cut too large a 

 piece from the caruncle, as it disfigures the eyes, and 

 sometimes produces blindness. 



ON CUTTING OUT HOOKS OR HAWS. 



"Before I was acquainted with this subject, two 

 years ago, I had two fine young horses sacrificed to 

 this mistaken and ruinous operation. Ignorant quacks 

 do not know that the horse has a membrane peculiar 

 to the animal, whicji is at pleasure drawn over the 

 eye. The enlargement of this, by a fever, produces 

 the appearance, which, in jockey slang, is called the 

 hooks. Reduce the fever by depletion, such as bleed- 

 ing plentifully, purging, &c. and have the horse well 

 rubbed, and the hooks will disappear; that is, the 

 membrane is restored to its natural size and office, 

 which is to clear the eye from dust, &c. accidentally 

 entering it. I need not mention the cutting out of 

 this useful membrane unnecessary, as I have proved 

 the uselessness of this operation, by restoring a horse 

 without it a few days ago. 



W. V. MURRAY." 



[American Farmer.] 





