68 AILMENTS AND REMEDIES CONTINUED. 



Give doses of Glauber's salts daily and hot bran mashes. 

 Give salts a half pound daily. A gill of raw linseed oil 

 every day will be good, mixed with the bran. 



The horse which eats its own excrement does it for the 

 acids it contains, which are voided in it and in the urine 

 which it has absorbed. Give such a horse a pinch of cop- 

 peras, bone dust, salt, ashes and saltpetre mixed in its meal 

 once a day. A few days of pasturing is good. 



Horses snort and wheeze because of an enlargement of the 

 glands in the nostrils. A skilled veterinarian can remove 

 the trouble by cutting it out. Doctoring will not cure snor- 

 ing or wheezing horses. The air passages are stopped. 



A twenty-year-old horse was not doing well. Upon 

 examination his front teeth were found to be so long that his 

 grinders were kept from coming together, and he could not 

 masticate his food. His teeth were filed off, and the sharp 

 points evened with a float, and he is now doing as well as any 

 of the younger horses. Watch the teeth of the old horse. 



An experienced horseman, if human, will not push his 

 horse beyond his strength by Overriding or Driving ; still at 

 times an indiscreet driver will bring an animal to the verge 

 of extinction, when it is well to know what to do for him. 

 The symptoms are plain in the audible breathing, staggering 

 gait, exhausted appearance and heaving flank. The girts 

 must be removed and the face turned toward the wind, 

 the animal being protected from the sun meantime. 

 The head must be left free and the limbs and body well 

 rubbed. The movement of the ribs should not be hindered 

 in any way. A few swallows of cold water may be allowed, 

 and, in hot weather, the mouth, forehead and face may be 

 sponged with it. When sufficiently revived the horse should 

 be slowly led to a comfortable box-stall and heavily blanketed, 

 woolen bandages being wound about the legs as well. Tf 



