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renew the application and repeat till the trouble 

 is cured. Three or four applications are usually 

 sufficient. 



The few remedies I have here pointed out will 

 cover, I think, most of the emergencies that, at 

 one time or another, are sure to arise wherever 

 horses are kept-. I shall not- take up the matter of 

 treatment for chronic diseases and structural un- 

 soundness — as founder, heaves, ringbone, spavin, 

 etc. Animals having these unsoundnesses can 

 often be made very useful, -and a study of their 

 treatment is not without interest; still, the best 

 way, when practicable, is to sell them and let the 

 doctoring be done by some one else. 



I have used some other remedies than those here 

 mentioned, but I think it is not necessary to take 

 them up, partly because I do not like to recom- 

 mend the use of drugs, and partly because the 

 older I grow the less medicine I use. I used, for 

 instance, to give aconite when a horse had a cold 

 — and there are times when such treatment is not 

 amiss ; but I am convinced that, in the maj ority 

 of cases, the horse does fully as well if given no 

 medicine whatever. Simply make him comfort- 

 able, keep him in an even temperature, and sub- 

 stitute bran for his more solid and substantial 

 grain rations. 



Your success in home treatment will depend 



