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Mange. 



Scrub the skin with soapsuds and apply 

 thoroughly a lather made of 1 1-2 oz. of tobacco 

 boiled in two pints of water. Repeat again in 

 fifteen days. 



Harness, curry-comb, brush, etc., should be 

 likewise treated. Blankets may be boiled and the 

 stable covered with a whitewash of quicklime, 

 containing one-fourth pound of Chlorinated lime 

 to the gallon. 



After scrubbing the skin with soapsuds, ap- 

 ply to the affected parts a solution of carbolic 

 acid, 1-2 oz. to one pint of water. 



After cleansing or brushing, apply one 

 ounce of turpentine and three ounces of soft 

 soap ; or, flowers of sulphur, two ounces, and 

 ointment of carbolic acid, seven ounces. 



Treatment for the Hoof When the Horse 

 Steps Into Nail. 



The time-honored custom of pouring turpen- 

 tine into the hoof after this disagreeable acci- 

 dent should be abandoned, but instead the hole 

 should be thoroughly cut out and then peroxide 

 of hydrogen should be freely poured into the 

 wound, then thoroughly swabbed with cotton 

 soaked in peroxide of hydrogen, and then the op- 

 ening filled with cotton soaked with clear pine tar 

 and firmly covered by an antiseptic dressing. 



Drinking Water, and Test for Same, for 

 Horses and Cattle. 



The matter of drinking water for horses and 

 cattle has not usually received the consideration 

 that it should. As a rule, of course, pure running 

 spring water is the best for watering stock. 

 However, springs may be contaminated. Running 



