146 PRIVATE PRESCRIPTIONS 
(here is a quick process of fattening horses for trade, it 
can be done in six days by using the following: 
PRESCRIPTION. 
Nitric Acid: 6 Eevee fice, drachuis 
Bicarpenate of Sodas 3c 6 aoe 2) Oumees 
Nitrate, ofPotash © 40.042 6,2) 27emnmces 
BlackvAmtinoiny 0 2 ee ee oumees 
Asatoctida, Gut. ty. i 2 te eB oumees 
Mix and give a tablespoonful twice a day for 6 days in soft 
feed. The flesh acquired through this means is of a poor 
quality and the horse will not hold it but a few days, being 
left in a wors: condition than in the beginnin,z 
A horse is sometimes made lame for reasons usually best 
known to the jockey, by taking a hair fom his mane or 
tail and passing it beneath the | ack te:.don of the fore leg 
by means of a common sewing needle, and clipping the 
ends off close so as not to be noticeable. In a short time 
the horse will be very lame, but when the hair is removed 
he is all sight again. 
One of the meanest tricks to which the jockey stoops is 
in making a good horse appear as if going blind when 
there is no troub‘e with the eyes. This is done by plug- 
ging up the nasal openings of the lachrymal ducts with 
bees wax. The trouble passes away as soon as the wax is 
removed. 
A horse is sometimes made to quit eating by covering 
his teeth with tallow, he will starve when this is done be- 
fore he will eat a bite. Remove the tallow from the teeth 
and he will eat as before. 
We have explained how the heaves are ‘‘shut down”’ in 
our treatment of the trouble, 
