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milk. Sweet oil has been sometimes used as a 

 substitute for milk. 



Remedy for Heaves in Horses • 



Take one pound and a half of good ginger, for 

 a horse. Give two table spoonfuls a day — one in 

 the morning and the other in the evening, mixt with 

 wheat bran. This receipt has been selling at ^5 

 to the eastward, where the efficacy of the above 

 medicine has been proved in the cure of several 

 cases of obstinate heaves. 



Cure for Sore Tongues. 



By making use of a little tar, once a day, rub- 

 bed on the tongue of the sound horses with a mop, 

 is an f^ffectual preventive; for the diseased horse, 

 take a common table spoonful of spirits of turpen- 

 tine and pour it on the tongue, as far down as prac- 

 ticable, then with a mop well saturated with the 

 spirits of turpentine, mop every part of the tongue; 

 after this make use of the tar as in the way above 

 mentioned as a preventivej this done once or twice 

 a day, for two or three days, has never failed ma- 

 king a cure. 



Founder in Horses. 



A horse rode until heated and fatigued, and fed 

 too plentifully while warm and hungry, — and swal- 

 lowing his food too greedily, that he may lie down 

 and rest his wearied limbs; — and the stable being 

 wet or damp, and the horse in a compious sweat, 

 are reasons the best that can be given, for the for- 

 mation of the disease. 



Instead of rising up refreshed, the poor animal 

 is stiff and useless. If he had sot leave to cool 



