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suggest. You take your I5 Waterbury to the 

 watchmaker's for cleansing and oiling, — do be 

 equally respectful to your I500 equine's main- 

 spring. " Carron oil " — linseed oil and lime- 

 water — may be given (from a pint to a quart) 

 occasionally, and can do no harm, provided the 

 recipient is laid by for a day. 



Now we come to a matter that is usually re- 

 garded with horror and distrust, — the use of 

 arsenic. This drug, properly used, is nothing in 

 the world but a strong tonic, and, like all such 

 powerful agents, its use must be gradually be- 

 gun, briefly continued, and gradually abandoned. 

 " Fowler's solution " is a very valuable medicine, 

 and in capable hands works excellent results, stimu- 

 lates faltering appetite, and generally tones up the 

 system. Quinine, another powerful tonic, is also 

 wonderfully helpful with hard-working horses, 

 and with some it seems to be as useful as the 

 dangerous and distrusted arsenic. There are 

 more horses (which do not seem to do well) suf- 

 fering from genuine malaria than would be be- 

 lieved, and especially in the spring is this drug a 

 most valuable agent to the maintaining of health, 

 appetite, and courage. Do not for a moment 

 imagine that the writer is an advocate of the use of 



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