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Another (Pint of port wine with spice)

A pint of port wine, with spice or ginger.

Another. Half a pint of gin diluted with 4 ounces of water and a little ginger.

Another. Take of Epsom salt, 6 ounces; Castile soap, sliced, 2 ounces. Dissolve them in 1 pints of warm gruel; then add tincture of opium, ounce; oil of juniper, 2 drachms. Mix, and give them new-milk warm.

This drink may be repeated every four or five hours till the symptoms begin to abate.

The Same when on a Journey.

Take of tincture of opium and oil of juniper, each, 2 drachms; sweet spirit of nitre, tincture of benzoin, and aromatic spirit of ammonia, each ounce.

Mix them together in a bottle for one drink, and give it in a pint of warm gruel.

For the colic, flatulency, and colicky pains of the intestines this drink will be found a valuable cordial. It may be repeated every two hours until the symptoms abate.

Another. The complaint may be removed by warm beer and ginger, or a cordial ball, mixed with warm beer.

It is necessary to repeat the caution given respecting the necessity of distinguishing the flatulent, or windy, or spasmodic colic from the inflammatory one, and from that which depends on costiveness. It is always necessary to empty the bowels by means of clysters, and should the horse have appeared dull and heavy previous to the attack, it will be advisable to bleed. If costiveness attends it, give a laxative drench after the paroxysm, which will prevent its return. Diuretic Balls for Horses.

Mix together 1 ounce of oil of juniper; 1 ounce of balsam of sulphur; 2 ounces of Venice turpentine; 4 ounces of sal prunella; 1 pound of black resin.

Melt all together gently over a slow fire, in an iron pot, and make up into balls of the size of a nutmeg.

Another. Take of nitre, 3 pounds; resin, 3 pounds; soap, 1½ pounds; juniper berries, 1 pound; oil of juniper 1½ ounces.

To be made up into balls of the common size, with spirits of turpentine.

To cure Diseases in Horses' Feet.

Every person may see, upon turning up the bottom of a horse's foot, an angular projection pointing towards the toe, termed the frog and its bars, the remainder or hollow part being technically termed the sole, though the entire bottom of the foot might better receive this name. It is certain, however, that "the frog and sole" require pressure-a congenial kind of pressure without concussion that shall cause the sensible, inside, or quick-sole to perform its functions of absorbing the serous particles secreted or deposited therein by the blood vessels. If the frog and its bars are permitted to remain in such a state as to reach the ground, wherever the sod happens to be soft or yielding the hollow part of the sole receives its due proportion of pressure laterally, and the whole sole or surface of the foot is thereby kept in health.

Prevention.

Every veterinarian of sense will perceive the necessity of keeping the heels apart, yet although the immediate cause of their contracting is so universally known and recognized, the injudicious method (to call it by no harsher name) of paring away the frog and sole, which prevents the bars from ever touching the ground, is still continued to an alarming extent.

So much for prevention. When disease comes on, which may be accelerated by two other species of mismanagement, another course is usually followed not less injudicious than the first mentioned original cause of all the mischief.

Horses' hoofs are of two distinct kinds or shape, the one being oval, hard, dark-colored and thick, the other round, palish, and thin in the wall, or crust of the hoof. The first has a different kind of frog from the latter, this being broad, thick and soft, whilst the oval hoof has a frog that is long, acute and hard. The rags, which hard work and frequent shoeing occasion on the horny hoof of the round foot, produce ragged frogs also, both being thus pared away to make a fair bottom to receive the shoe (burning hot!), the whole support is so far reduced, and the sensible sole coming much nearer the ground, becomes tender and liable to those painful concussions which bring on lameness-principally of the fore feet.

Contraction of those kinds of heels which belong to the cart-horse, and pommice-foot, are the consequence. The oval foot pertains to the saddle-horse, the hunter, and bit of blood-kind whose bold projecting frogs the farriers remove, and these being compelled to perform long and painful journeys ever starting or going off with the same leading. leg, and continuing the same throughout, lameness is contracted in that foot, which none can ac count for, nor even find out whereabout it may be seated. Applications of "the oyals" (that egregious compound of folly, ignorance and brutality), follow the first appearance of lameness, and are made alike to the shoulder, the leg, and the sole, under the various pretences of rheumatism, strain in the shoulder, and founder. The real cause, however, is not thought of, much less removed, but, on the contrary, the evil is usually augmented by removing the shoe and drawing the sole to the quick nearly in search of suppositious corns, surbatings, etc.-pretended remedies that were never known to cure, but which might have been all prevented by the simplest precautions imaginable.

These are: 1st. Let the frog and sole acquire their natural thickness. 2d. Lead off sometimes with one leg, sometimes with the other. 3d. Stuff the hollow of the hoofs (all four of them) with cow-dung, or tar ointment, changing it entirely once a day. In every case it is advisable that he be worked moderately, for it is useless to talk to the owners of horses about giving the afflicted animal an entire holiday at grass.

Should the proprietor of the beast be a sordid customer; the farrier can expect no fee for such simple advice as is here given, so he must procure a phialful of water, and putting therein a little saltpetre and a little coloring matter, to be either mixed with the stuffing, or to wash the sole clean daily, though the remedy will do as well (nearly) without such addition. A more efficacious auxiliary will be found in procuring a patch of clay, to be kneaded on the ground, on which the animal (which is worth so much trouble) may be allowed to stand, and if a small patch be made for each foot, the horse himself will prove their value | hard brush, in the open air, provided the day be (in most cases) by feeling for them as it were, and showing by his manner how gratified he is at the coldness they afford to his heated feet. Herein it must be observed that stuffing with clay is not recommended, this being one of the numerous blunders of those farriers who, having found the benefit of any application or remedy, push it to a ridiculous extremity.

Remedy for Lameness in Horses.

Mr. Sewell, of the Veterinary College, stated his having discovered a method of curing horses which are lame in the fore-feet. It occurred to him that this lameness might originate in the nerves of the foot, near the hoof, and in consequence he immediately amputated about an inch of the diseased nerve, taking the usual precaution of guarding the arteries and passing ligatures, ution etc. By this means the animal was instantly relieved from pain, and the lameness perfectly cured.

To cure the Thrush in Horses' Feet.

Simmer over the fire till it turns brown equal parts of honey, vinegar, and verdigris, and apply it with a feather or brush occasionally to the feet.

The horse at the same time should stand hard, and all soft dung and straw be removed.

Shoeing Horses in Winter.

In Canada, where the winter is never of a less duration than five months, they shoe their horses in the following manner, which serves for the whole winter: The smith fixes a small piece of steel on the fore part of each shoe, not tempered too hard, which turns up about a quarter of an inch, in the shape of a horse's lancet; the same to the hinder part of the shoe, turned up a little higher than the fore part, tempered in the same manner.

In going up a hill the fore part gives a purchase that assists the horse, and in going down prevents him sliding forwards.

Shoes having a number of downward points are still better, though more expensive.

To prevent the Feet of Horses from Balling with Snow.

If the frog in the hoofs of horses and the fetlock be cleaned, and well rubbed with soft soap, previously to their going out in snowy weather, it will effectually prevent their falling from what is termed balling with snow. A number of accidents might be prevented by this simple precaution.

Ointment for the Mange.

Take of common turpentine 1 pound; quicksilver, 4 ounces; hogs' lard, a pound; flour of sulphur, 4 ounces; train-oil, a pint. fine and the weather warm. If the horse draws in a team the inside of the collar must be washed, or the inside of the saddle, if a saddle-horse, for the disease is highly contagious.

Eye-water.

Take of camphor, 2 drachms, dissolved in 2 ounces of rectified spirit of wine; Goulard's extract, 1 ounce; rose-water, 1 quart. Shake all together in a bottle for use.

Let the eye and the eyelids be well bathed three in the eye-water. or four times a day, with a clean linen rag dipped For Inflammation of the Lungs.

Take of white antimonial powder, 2 drachms; nitre, an ounce; Castile soap, 2 drachms; aromatic confection, an ounce. Beat them into a ball. it can be prepared, after he has been bled; and This ball must be given to the horse as soon as continue it two or three times a day as long as the give him a purging drink, and repeat it every inflammation continues. About six hours after, night and morning until a passage is obtained, or the bowels are sufficiently opened.

Embrocation for Sprains.

Take of soap liniment and camphorated spirit of wine, of each, 8 ounces; oil of turpentine, & an ounce.

Mix and shake when used. well calculated to remove pain and inflammation, This evaporating and discutient embrocation is which is generally effected in the course of a fortnight or three weeks. During that time the horse should not be allowed to go out of the stable or farm-yard.

Bracing Mixture for Sprains.

After the above embrocation the following bracing mixture must be rubbed on the part once a day:

Take of Egyptiacum (liniment of verdigris), 2 ounces; oil of turpentine, 1 ounce.

Shake well together; then add camphorated spirit of wine and compound tincture of benzoin, each 2 ounces; vinegar, 11 ounces.

Mix, and shake well together every time they are used.

Paste to stop Bleeding.

Take of fresh nettles 1 handful; bruise them in a mortar; add blue vitriol, in powder, 4 ounces; wheaten flour, 2 ounces; wine vinegar, ounce; oil of vitriol, ounce.

Beat them all together into a paste.

Let the wound be filled up with this paste, and a proper pledget of tow laid over the mouth, in Grind the silver with the turpentine, in a mar-order to prevent it from falling out, and then ble mortar, for five or six hours, until it completely bandage it on with a strong roller. This dressing disappears, and add a little oil of turpentine to ❘ must remain in the wound ten or twelve hours. make it rub easier; then add the remainder, and work them all well together till united.

This ointment must be well rubbed on every part affected, in the open air, if the sunshine and the weather be warm; but if it be winter, take the horse to a blacksmith shop, where a large bar of iron must be heated, and held at a proper distance over him, to warm the ointment. Liniment for the Mange.

Take of white precipitate, 2 ounces; strong mercurial ointment, 2 ounces; flowers of sulphur, a pound; rape-oil, 2 quarts.

First grind the white precipitate in a little oil; afterwards add the remainder, taking care that they are well mixed.

This liniment must be well rubbed in with a Ointment for Scratched Heels. ounces; white vitriol, 1 ounce; sugar of lead, Take of hog's lard, 1 pound; white lead, 4 ounce; olive oil, 3 ounces.

Grind all the powders in a marble mortar with the oil, or on a marble slab; then add the lard, and work the whole together till united.

This is a neat composition, and very proper to only be found useful for greasy and scratched keep in the stable during the winter. It will not heels, but also for stubs and treads of every dethe part affected every night and morning, in scription. A small quantity must be rubbed on slight cases; but in treads, or wounds upon the heels, it will be best to spread the ointment on pledgets of tow, and secure them with bandages.

Ointment for Greasy Heels.

Take of white ointment, 1 pound; white vitriol, blue vitriol, and sugar of lead, in powder, each, ounce.

Mix well together.

This ointment, when used, must be spread on strong brown paper, and applied over the part that greases, and bandaged on with listing. The horse may, after dressing, be turned into a drystraw yard, and a few diuretic balls given to him; one may be given every third day. Once dressing is, in general, sufficient to perform a cure; if not, it may be repeated in a week after.

Astringent Embrocation for Strains in Different Parts.

Take of camphor 2 drachms, dissolved in an ounce of strong rectified spirit of wine; nitre, 1 ounce, dissolved in a pint of wine vinegar; spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces; white lead, or armenian bole, in powder, an ounce; aqua fortis, 1 ounce.

Mix, and shake them all together in a bottle for use.

Mixture for Canker in the Mouth.

Take of wine vinegar, a pint; burnt alum and common salt, each 1 ounce; armenian bole, an ounce.

Mix, and shake them together in a bottle for use.

Rupture in the Horse.

Rupture or hernia is the protrusion of a bowel or some other part from its proper cavity. It is sometimes congenital, and may then be reduced at the same time that castration is performed. kicks, or At other times rupture may be produced by blows, falls. A hernia is dangerous to life when it becomes strangulated or compressed by a stricture at the orifice of protrusion. Skilful surgical aid should always be obtained in any such case at once. But, sometimes, in the absence of a veterinarian, any one may restore the gut by introducing the hand into the bowel and making gentle pressure upon the swelling in the drawing it up; the other hand, at the same time, abdomen. No violence should ever be used in atemptied by a clyster, to which, sometimes, to retempting this: and the bowels should first be lax the parts, half an ounce or an ounce of tobacco is added. Too large a quantity of the latter would be dangerously prostrating.

Purging Ball-Dogs.

Take of jalap, in powder, 1 scruple; Barbadoes aloes, 1 drachm; ginger, in powder, 10 grains; conserve of hips, or syrup, enough to form a ball.

Liniment for the Mange.

Take of flowers of sulphur, 4 ounces; white It will be proper to dress the horse's mouth with precipitate, 1 ounce; strong mercurial ointment, this mixture, every morning and evening, in the following manner: Take a small cane, or a piece of whalebone, half a yard long, and tie a linen rag, or a little tow round one end; then dip it into the mixture, and pass it up his mouth, and gently remove it to all the affected parts; let him champ it well about in his mouth: after which let him fast an hour, then give him food as usual.

Glanders.

This disease is contagious, destructive, and seldom cured. It is known by a discharge from one or both nostrils, and a swelling of the gland under the jaw; coming on rather slowly, and followed after a time by ulceration. Catarrh or influenza may be mistaken for it; but this is a much more rapid disorder. Ozana is a disease attended with an offensive discharge; in glanders the discharge is not offensive unless at an advanced stage. In doubtful cases, sometimes, the inoculation of a donkey with the matter is used as a test. Glanders may be communicated to a human being; and is then also fatal and seldom cured. Every horse suspected of glanders should be kept carefully apart from all others. If the disorder is slow in its progress, and the animal can be prevented from giving it to others, he may be kept for moderate work, upon good feeding, in some instances, for several years. If hard worked, ill-fed or exposed, a glandered horse will run down very fast.

Tetanus, or Lock-Jaw.

This may follow punctured wounds of the foot, as in shoeing, or docking, nicking, or gelding; occurring two or three weeks after the accident or operation. Sometimes it has followed violent exertion; and it is not unfrequently produced by cold. If the stiffness of the muscles be confined to the head or neck, it is much more curable than when general. Two or three out of five out of all the cases are said to get well under good treatment.

Mild purgatives, sheep-skin clothing, clysters containing from a quarter to half an ounce of opium, repeated according to the symptoms, and nourishing injections, if the jaws cannot be opened so as to swallow, constitute the best means of management. 1 ounce; Cape aloes, in powder, ounce; neat'sfoot oil, 1½ pints. First rub the powders together in a mortar; then put in the ointment, and gradually add the oil; it must be stirred when used. The affected part must be well anointed with this liniment, every third day, for three or four times.

Mercurial Liniment for the Red Mange.

Take of mild mercurial ointment, 4 ounces; oil of turpentine, 3 ounces; Cape aloes, in powder, ounce.

Mix well together, and anoint the parts every third day for three or four times. Many sportsmen have their dogs regularly dressed with this liniment two or three weeks before the hunting season commences; it is supposed to improve their scent, and make them more fit for the chase.

Mild Ointments for the Mange.

Take of oil of vitriol, an ounce; hog's lard, Mix, and anoint the dog every day for 8 ounces. three or four times, or oftener if required. of mange.

This ointment is used in surfeit, and slight cases Lotion for the Mange. water, 3 pints, boil down to 2 pints and strain; Take of white hellebore root, bruised, 2 ounces; sal ammoniac, 2 drachms; sublimate, 1 drachm; Cape aloes, half an ounce.

Dissolve the sal ammoniac and other ingredients in the decoction. This lotion is sometimes used to cure the mange, when greasy applications are objected to.

Distemper in Dogs. dose for a full-grown pointer. They must, of The following prescriptions are each about a course, be increased or diminished in proportion to the size and strength of the dog.

Take of opium, 3 grains; tartar emetic, 5 grains, To be given at night.

Repeat the dose every third night, till the dog is recovered; taking care to keep him in a warm place, and always feed with a warm liquid diet, such as broth, gruel, etc.

If the nostrils should discharge, have them washed or syringed twice a day, with a lotion of alum or sagar of lead; putting about half an ounce of either to a pint of water.

Another. For a Half-Grown Pointer.

Take of jalap powder, 25 grains; calomel, 5 grains. Made into a pill with a little gum-water.

For a Full-Grown Pointer.

Take of jalap powder, 30 grains; calomel, 8 grains. Mixed as above.

One of these doses, mixed with butter, or in a small piece of meat, should be given to the dog, every morning, on an empty stomach. The food should be light, and easy to digest; and the lotion, if required for the nostrils, should be observed here, as before mentioned.

Distemper among Cattle.

Examine your cow's mouth, though she appears very well; and if you find any pimple in it, or on the tongue, or if you perceive any within the skin ready to come out, immediately house her, keep her warm, and give her warm tar-water. To a large beast give a gallon; to a small one three quarts. Give it four times every day; but not every time the quantity you first gave. Lessen the dose by degrees; but never give less than two quarts to a large beast, nor less than three pints to a small one; and house her every night for some time, and give her warm gruel and malt mash.

To make Tar-Water for Cows.

Take one quart of tar, put to it 4 quarts of water, and stir it well ten or twelve minutes; let it stand a little while, and then pour it off for You must not put water to the same tar more than twice. Let the first dose be made of fresh tar. Continue to give it till the beast is well. Don't let her go too soon abroad. use.

For the Garget in Cows.

This disorder is very frequent in cows after ceasing to be milked; it affects the glands of the udder with hard swellings, and often arises from the animal not being clean milked. It may be removed by anointing the part three times a day with a little ointment, composed of camphor and blue ointment. Half a drachm or more of calomel may be given in warm beer, from a horn or bottle, for three or four mornings, if the disorder is violent.

To cure the Redwater in Cattle.

Take 1 ounce of armenian bole, half an ounce of dragon's blood, 2 ounces of Castile soap, and 1 drachm of alum. Dissolve these in a quart of hot ale or beer, and let it stand until it is blood-warm; give this as one dose, and if it should have the desired effect, give the same quantity in about twelve hours after. This is an excellent medicine for changing the water, and acts as a purgative; every farmer that keeps any number of cattle, should always have doses of it by him.

To cure the Scouring in Cattle.

The following composition has been found to succeed in many cases which were apparently drawing to a fatal termination.

Take of powdered rhubarb, 2 drachms; castor oil, 1 ounce; prepared chalk, 1 teaspoonful.

Mix well together in a pint of warm milk. If the first dose does not answer, repeat it in thirtysix or forty-eight hours. If the calf will suck, it will be proper to allow him to do it.

Cure for Cattle swelled with Green Food.

When any of your cattle happen to get swelled with an over-feed of clover, frosty turnips, or such like, instead of the usual method of stabbing in the side, apply a dose of train oil, which, after repeated trials, has been found completely successful. The quantity of oil must vary according to the age or size of the animal. For a grown-up beast, of an ordinary size, the quantity recommended is about a pint, which must be administered to the animal with a bottle, taking care, at the same time, to rub the stomach well, in order to make it go down. After receiving this medicine, it must be made to walk about until such time as the swelling begins to subside.

Lung Fever.

This affection is epidemic among horses as well as cattle; airy stables and great cleanliness are important. There is no specific remedy. The same may be said of typhoid fever; known by great uneasiness, scouring, and nervous twitchings, with fever. Treatment of Cattle and Fowls.

The experiment has often been tried of the benefit derived to horses from being well combed and kept clean. It has been found that a horse neglected as to cleanliness will not be so well conditioned, either for fatness or strength, though he gets abundance of corn; at least, it is certain that it would be worth trying. This everybody knows, that the most neglected of the horse race are kept cleaner than the cleanest of the horned cattle, particularly those shut up in houses. "I have two hints to give," says a contemporary writer; "as the expense can be nothing and the advantage may be great; I read in a description of Norway, that when the cows drink at the hot springs they give more milk than those that drink cold water. Cows drink so much at a time that there is no doubt, when the water is nearly at freezing, they must feel sensibly cooled all over, which will naturally affect their produce of milk. I would therefore propose the experiment of warming the water for milch cows in cold weather."

The next proposal is that the corn given to fowls should be crushed and soaked in water; this helps the digestion, and hens will lay in winter when so fed that they would not otherwise.

In a time of scarcity, and when the food of man is dear, such experiments as proposed are well worth making; and the practice proposed with the fowls ought to become general, as it costs nothing.

To cure the Measles in Swine.

It sometimes happens, though seldom, that swine have the measles; while they are in this state their flesh is very unwholesome food, having been ascertained to produce tape-worm in those who feed upon it, especially if not well cooked.

This disorder is not easily discovered while the animal is alive, and can only be known by its not thriving or fattening as the others. After the animal is killed and cut up its fat is full of little kernels about the size of the roe or eggs of a salmon. When this is the case, put into the food of each hog, once or twice a week, as much crude pounded antimony as will lie on a shilling. A small quantity of the flour of brimstone, also, may be given with their food when they are not thriving, which will be found of great service to them. But the best method of preventing disorders in swine is to keep their sties perfectly clean and dry, and to allow them air, exercise and plenty of clean straw.

Kidney Worm.

The sign of this is dragging of the hind legs; which, in the hog, never occurs otherwise unless from an injury. An experienced farmer asserts that arsenic will always cure it. Give as much as a dime will hold, in dough or any other vehicle.

If once is not sufficient, the dose may be repeated. Rupture in Swine.