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- ous for a moment then it is all over and he leaves the re- 
‘mainder of his feed or merely nibbles at it. 
WHAT TO DO 
If caused from a bad tooth, extract it, and if from high 
feeding, give a complete change of food. A good treat- 
ment is to give purge same as in pneumonia, and foll: 
with tonic powders recommended in laryngitis. 
Bots. 
We find ‘‘bots in every horse from start to finish, and in- 
stead of proving harmful as many would think, it would 
be impossible for a horse to live without their presence in 
the stomach; as nature provides for these little worms so is 
she able to care for them. But there is a worm hatchet 
sometimes in the stomach of the horse from the egg of a 
““ead-fly’’ or ‘‘nit-fly,’’ which, when passed by the horse, 
is taken for a bot; these resemble bots very much, but a 
comparison of the two will demonstrate a difference. You 
may take the worm from the egg ofa ‘‘gad-fly,’’ place it 
in a bottle, and inside of twelve days it develops into a 
perfect ‘‘gad-fly,’’ where a bot similarly placed is at the 
end of twelve months stilla bot. As before stated all 
- horses have bots, but these are not the cause of the mutil- 
ated condition of the stomach, which we find soon afterthe 
death of a horse, this condition being brought about by the 
action of the gastric juice—in fact it is a kind of self diges: 
tion of the stomach by itself. Bots never have killed a 
horse and I would advise that you be not guilty of giving 
bot remedies for you can put nothing in the stomach that 
