ASTRINGENT BALL FOR
LOOSENESS IN HORSES.Opium from one-half to one drachm; ginger, one and a half drachms;
prepared chalk, three drachms; flour, two drachms. Powder, and make into
a ball with molasses.
MIXTURE FOR ULCERS
AND ALL FOUL SORES.Sulphate of zinc, one oz.; corrosive sublimate, one drachm; spirit of salt,
four drachms; water, one pint; mix.
YELLOW WATER IN HORSES.
Take Venetian soap, juniper oil, saltpetre, sal prunella, sweet spirits of
nitre, of each one ounce; make it into a ball with pulverized licorice root,
and give the horse two ounces at once, and repeat if necessary. If attended
with a violent fever, bleed, and give bran mashes; or, Take a gallon of strong
beer, or ale, add thereto two ounces of Castile soap and one ounce of
saltpetre; stir, and mix daily of this with his feed.
The following is also highly recommended in a German work: Take
pulverized gentian and calamus, of each one-half ounce; sulphate of
potassa, two ounces; tartar emetic, liver of sulphur, and oil of turpentine,
one-eighth of an ounce each; mix it with flour and water, and give the above
in the incipient stage of the disease. The dose, if necessary, may be given
daily for several days.
A VALUABLE RECIPE FOR GALLS —
WINDGALLS IN HORSES.An intelligent and experienced farmer, rising of seventy years of age,
residing in Allen township, Cumberland county, has assured us that the
following ointment, if applied two or three times a day, will cure the most
obstinate windgalls. Take one pound of the leaves of stramonium
(Jamestown weed) bruised; two pounds of fresh butter or hog’s lard, and
one gill of the spirits of turpentine; put the whole of the ingredients into a