How to treat 



24 COLONEL HANGER TO 



linseed oil will destroy them. The de- 

 coction must be thrown up by means of a 

 syringe, and the horse's tail held fast down 

 with a cloth on the fundament, for ten 

 minutes, to prevent the decoction from 

 being discharged. 



dryThard!and To casc pain in a horse's foot, or to make 

 a dry, hard, brittle, or contracted foot sup- 

 ple and expand, I know nothing equal to 

 boiled linseed, applied warm to the foot. 



t'ie FeT^''" When the foot be wounded by picking up 

 a nail, cut by glass, or by some other acci- 

 dent, in which case gravel may have got 

 into the foot, it will be necessary to apply a 

 common poultice with Venice turpentine, 

 to draw the gravel out. 



Horse's'^hoofs, Ncvcr ou any account grease a horse's hoof, 



but dab them i*iii • ti r^ i j^i 



with Cham- which all-Wise J ohn (jrrooms do, as they say, 



berlie. 



to supple it and keep it from cracking ; 

 grease has a contrary effect. Take your 

 horses out from the clean straw and dab 

 their hoofs well, morning and evening, with 

 stale chamberlie. 

 fffSt's^of Take a dry hoof of a horse, cut it in half, 



and Grease on stccp ouc half for scvcral days in a pot of 

 chamberlie, and the other in a pot of 



