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pint of spirit of tar, and two pounds of soft soap, mix 

 it well together and make it hot with a gentle fire. 

 Then put it into a large pail, and add one pint and a 

 half of spirits of turpentine, and about two quarts of 

 train-oil, in which has been mixed with the hand 

 minutely, as much sulphur as will make a thick oint- 

 ment of the two quarts. Stir all together, and when 

 cool, rub it in with the hand. Boiling the sulphur 

 spoils it. This will not only eradicate all vermin, 

 but will cure the common mange. 



THE RED MANGE. 



For the red mange, the following is the only remedy 

 which I know will effect a cure with any certainty : 



Mix soft soap and quicksilver together into as 

 strong a blue ointment as can be made, and rub a lump 

 as big as a walnut into each knee-joint for seven or 

 eight mornings, which will cause salivation; and give 

 a dose often grains of calomel on every third day, for 

 three mornings. 



SECTION FIFTH. 



When a hound requires any operation to be per- 

 formed upon him in the kennel, be it ever so trifling, 

 let him be first properly secured, as, if he once gets 

 the upper hand, he will always be exceedingly trou- 

 blesome to manage. If he is fractious, he should be 

 caught with a whip, or even two whips, in a resolute 

 and workmanlike manner, before the couples are put 

 on him, and not hunted round the court and irritated 

 by a bungling tailor, who is frightened at him; the 

 muzzle should then be firmly strapped on, and with a 



