AILMENTS AND REMEDIES. 59 



If, from improper care or feeding, or from some unavoid- 

 able cause, your horse is out of condition, you should dose 

 him with little medicine and much common sense. 



The horse that allovv r s himself to be caught lying down 

 may be considered out of condition or lacking sufficient nu- 

 tritious food. A quart of linseed meal divided into three 

 feeds and added to his grain daily will do him much good 

 and help a quick shedding of the coat. 



If a horse cough, dampen his hay, wet his mixed feed, 

 keep him out of a draught ; after exercise blanket him. 



Keep hot poultices cf bread and milk or oil meal on the 

 neck of horses with throat Distemper ; change them often. 

 In severe cases rub the glands and muscles with spirits of 

 turpentine and camphor. 



Look out for Scratches. Many a horse is ruined by allow- 

 ing the legs to go dirty. It takes only a few minutes to wash 

 them clean and rub them dry. If the skin begins to crack 

 it must not be left or it will become almost incurable. The 

 skin must be kept clean and soft. Cut the hair off short and 

 paint it over with chloride of zinc and water thirty grains 

 to one pint of water. Put this on once a day and rub with 

 glycerine. 



Horses having greedy appetites, rough coats and poor 

 condition may be suspected of IVornis. Such animals often 

 pass long, round worms. Copperas or tobacco will clear the 

 worms out of the stomach of a horse. A tablespoonful of 

 copperas for two days and then stop for two. A handful of 

 tobacco dried and made into powder and mixed with the 

 grain. Give this for three days and then hold on for a few 

 days. For worms in the rectum a syringe must be used. 

 Salt and water is good ; carbolic acid diluted fifty times in 

 water, or, what is better, thymo-cresol. This would un- 

 doubtedly be a good internal remedy for worms, diluted one 



