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appear five; but you will be convinced of the fraud 

 by the non-appearance of the tushes; and if it be 

 a mare, by a shortness and snriallness of the cor- 

 ner teeth and indeed of the teeth in general. To 

 give an old horse the mark, is termed, to bishop 

 him; from the name of a noted operator. They 

 burn a hole in each of the corner teeth, and make 

 the shell fine and thin, with some iron instrument, 

 scraping all the teeth to make them white; some- 

 times they even file them all down short and even. 

 To this they add another operation; they pierce the 

 skin over the hollows of the eye, and blow it up 

 with a quill: but such manoeuvres can deceive only 

 the inexperienced, and in case of dispute would 

 be detected in an instant. 



Remedy for Chmbs or Botis in Horses. 



All the symptoms of colic and grubs in horses 

 are the same; and unless a horse swells, no one 

 can discern the difference. It would be well, 

 therefore, to commence for the grubs, as the more 

 fatal and dangerous disease — and to which, the 

 remedy here recommended, is an alleviation, if not 

 a cure, for the colic, and in a slight attack would 

 relieve immediately. So soon as a horse shows 

 symptoms of uneasiness, such as groaning, looking 

 back towards his sides, laying dqwn, Stc, he should 

 be bled in the neck; which being caught in bottles, 

 should be immediately poured down the horse. 

 The bottles, while held to receive the blood, may 

 be immersed in hot water, to prevent coagulation, 

 and to keep it in a warm and liquid state; the horse 

 should be made to swallow from three quarts to a 

 gallon. I never yet knew this fail to give relief iu 

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