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pipes, and put it into three pints of water — boil it 

 down to about half, and give it to the horse cool. 

 For this use, then, lay up your old pipes. 



To restore a lost Appetite, 



Horses lose their appetite from various causes, 

 viz: excessive fatigue, want of a change in food, 

 dirty fodder, mouldy «corn or a dirty manger, &c., 

 Sec, but most frequently by the approach of some 

 disease. So soon as vou discover a horse has lost 

 his appetite, observe the following treatment, viz: 

 Take from the neck vein half a gallon of blood : take 

 of assafoetida a quarter of an ounce, salt one table 

 spoonful, sassafras tea one quart — mix and give 

 them as a drench. On the second day, take of 

 glauber salts one pound, warm water one quart, af- 

 ter dissolving the salt, give it as a dr-ench, and in 

 two or three days the appetite will be restored, un- 

 less the animal is laboring under some disease, 

 which may be ascertained by the symptoms. 



Cure for Cough in Horses. 



Half pound of nitre, quarter pound of crocus 

 metallorum, (black regulus of antimony,) two oun- 

 ces of antimony; mix well in a mortar, and make it 

 up into doses of one ounce each. Give the horse 

 one dose in a cold mash mixed, every night in 

 mild weather, for three nights; then omit it for a 

 week. If he does not get better of his cough, re- 

 peat it 



Care is necessary that the horse should not be 

 exposed while warm, to stand in a cold wind: oth- 

 erwise exercise him gently, and heat him as usual 

 Cure for Sore Backs. 



A small quantity of white lead moistened with 



