The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
Bolts In HOrses-Sure Cure For.

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Bolts IN H0rses-Sure Cure For.
Eds. Southern CultiratOr:-YOu
have published many articles Oh the
subject of hOtts, but, IS this may be
considered a practical instead of a
scientific article, / think it may prove
profitable to many of your readers.
| Some writers tell us that that the bot
cannot hurt the horse. About %
years ago 1 had a practical test of the
i~ncorrectness Of this theory which
settled the matter in my own mind,
aud have no doubt saved me many o
dollar. My horse was taken i'll and
some of my ncighbCrs pronounced it
a case of collie, and VIC treated it ac-
cordingly for about two hours when
finding he was likely to die, another
neighbor was called in who was said
to be very successful in treating dis
eased horses.
After examining him a minute or
two he pronounced it a case of bots,
and administered the following
drench: Strong sage tea one quart,
pulverized alum, a heaping table
spoonful, and mOlasscs Tor sugar) one
teacupful. In ten minutes the horse
got up and went to eating grass, and
was never more sick while l owned
him. My neighbor told me that sage
tea was a specific poison for the bot,
and would kill them when Aqua For
It's would not, and since that time,
whenever | see my horse toss his head
around As if to brush off a fly when
there is none disturbing, forthwith a
drench is administered as above, and
l have never had a horse sick from
the bots since.
Though not perhaps appropriate, l
will add a few lines concerning collie.
A great many farmers lose horses and
mules from collie when they might
readily save them. The horses or
mules are worked freely, and then en-
trusted to negroes to water, who ride
them into the water and allow them
to drink whilst heated just as much as
they desire, and the next morning the
owner is telling his neighbor of his
bad luck, that, when he went into the
stable he found his mule dead. Now,
if the owner will cause his foreman
or manager to see TO it that, at every
third or fourth swallow the head of
the horse is pulled up and held for a
few seconds he may be allowed TO
drink as much as he pleases, and new
er will have the collie.
| have ridden my horse until there
was not a dry hair OIL him, and OH
coming to a stream let him drink un-
til he was perfectly satisfied, and new
er had a horse to suffer a single min
ute from it. By pulling up the head
and making the horse pause, the small
quantity OF water taken i'm three Or
four swallows will be warmed to the
natural temperature, and no evil re-
suits can follow; but if allowed TO
drink freely and without interruption,
while overheated, he will probably
die in less than twelve hours.
Furthermore, if the horse does not
have the collie, the digestive apparatus
is thrown out of order considerably,
and the horse loses flesh and cannot
stand to his work while if the above
plan is carried out, the owner will
avoid any risk of collie and keep his
horse in much better order.
just here while thinking of pillow
horses my mind wanders of to anoth-
CT very frequent cause of the bad Or
der plow horses are fOundin. Dircc-
tions arc very generally given to reg
ulate tho drausht of the piow by the
back-Dand. Now, if farmers were
aware of the fact that, by SO doing,
they put such a strain Oh the kidneys,
that they cannot possibly perform
their physiological functions in a
proper manner, and that a horse will
fail i'm flesh quicker from a failure of
the kidneys to perform their functions
in a proper manner, than from the
failure of fanny other organ, they would
see to it that the back-band is never
placed too far back. If the draught
of the pillow cannot be altered except
by placing the back-band ovcr or near
the kidneys, the stock should be al.
tered so as to secure the draught dc.
sired, and the back-band kept ut or
about sixteen or eighteen inches from !
the loggerhead in the hame; then, il
well fed and curried, the horse will |
keep his flesh and stand to lis work.
| have seen many horses injured and
impaired in value by the back-band
not being in the right place, but, as il
was not my business to direct the
management of another's horse, moth.
ing was said. Nevertheless, l write,
a friendly hint through your
paper may be received with more IA
vor than a private conversation would
be likely to meet with,
And now, lest my mind should
wander oil to something else, l had
better stop.-B. ii. WASHINGTON, NJ.
d., IUguyta, Co, az Southern Guilt
\ NEW BATTLE-CRY.-"What are
you disturbing the whole house with
your yells in this way for?' deman-
dcd a Saratoga landlord of a guest
whom he found late at night seeming
ly in active pursuit of invisible foes,
and yelling at the top OF his voice.
Pm shouting the battle cry of TEA
DOM" answered the gust, rs he went
ahead with his search and his yells.
At a Columbus Ca marble yard
here is a solid block of marble which
s TO be dug out, a metallic coffin placed
therein, and the whole, after a corpse
Is deposited within it, to be hermetrical-
sealed above ground. 1t has been
ordered by a gentleman in Barbour
Ala.