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cover with a blanket. After standing two days, wash 

 him clean with soft-soap and water. After this process 

 has been gone through, keep the animal blanketed for 

 a few days, as he will be liable to take cold. Feed 

 with bran mashes, plenty of common salt, and water. 

 This will relieve the bowels all that is necessary, and 

 can scarcely fail of effecting a cnre. Another method, 

 but not so certain in its effect, is to make a decoction of 

 tobacco, say about one pound of the stems to two gal- 

 lons of water, boiled until the strength is extracted 

 from the weed, and when cool enough, bathe the mule 

 well with it from head to foot, let him dry off, and 

 do not curry him for a day or two. Then curry him 

 well, and if the itching appear again, repeat the bath- 

 ing two or three times, and it will produce a cure. 

 The same treatment will apply in case of lice, which 

 frequently occurs where mules are kept in large num- 

 bers. Mercury should never be used in any form, 

 internally or externally, on an animal so much expased 

 as the mule. 



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Clean the parts well with castile-soap and warm 

 water. As soon as you have discovered the disease, 

 stop wetting the legs, as that only aggravates it, and 

 use ointment made from the following substances : 

 Powdered charcoal, two ounces ; lard or tallow, four 

 ounces ; sulphur, two ounces. Mix them well together, 

 then rub the ointment in well with your hand on the 

 affected parts. If the above is not at hand, get gun- 



