Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-30

Take down that board and break it
The farm shall not be sold
CURE FOR SCRATCHES IN HoRsEs.-
Scratches-Take of powdered slippery elm.
one pound: boiled carrots and turnips, of
each, three pounds. Moisten the whole with
warm water, and place poultice over the dis.
eased parts; then let them remain in this
condition, for, say, twelve hours, after the
lapse of which time remove the poultice and
apply warm water with q sponge for one
hour; then renew the poultice again, and
continue this way for three successive days
and nights, after which dust in litt.e of the
following mixture, three times day: Take
of tannic acid, six ounces; finely, powdered
acetate of lead, one ounce; -four, one pound.
Another-Iodide of potassium, one drachm
glycerine, one ounce. Apply once day.
Another-One quart good vinegar; one
half pound litharge. Mix and simmer down
to half the quantity; strain and apply.
Another-Two ounces -four sui phur; one
half ounce verdigris. Mix and apply after
washing.
To Prevent-When the horse comes in
with heels wet and cold, wash them with
warm water and wipe dry. When scratches
are light, let the heels be wiped clean by
means of damp sponge, after which apply
weak solution of sulphate Of zinc, one
drachm to one ounce of water.
When scratches are bad, boiled carrot
poultices are useful and even necessary, or
poultice of soms kind. They take away
the inflammation, and soften the scabs so that
they can be removed by washing. If the
hair is long it muss be clipped When the
hair is removed md the parts thoroughly
cleansed, suficiency of the following may
be applied, not only to the diseased, but to a
good deal of healthy skin: Take of lac sui
phur, one ounce; carbolic acid, one drachm
lard and olive oil, of each, two ounces. Mix
thoroughly. This is to be left on the skin
for two or three days, and then washed of
with soap and water. The subjoined powders
may be given until the swellings disappear
Take of arsenuous acid, half drachm sui
phur, six ounces powdered gentian and gin.
ger, of each two ounces. Mix and make
eighteen powders, and give one daily in food.
RULES FOR LIvING.-I am no doctor, quack
or pill vender, yet have had pretty good
long life and happy one. May 1 not, there
fore, just give my simple rules for health, in
hope some poor traveller on the up or down hill
of life, may look at them, and perhaps be ben
efitted by them. / have practiced them for
many years and they have done me good per-
haps they may do &c cd to others. They are in
expensive, and may be easily abandoned, if
they cause any harm.
1. Keep in the sunlight just as much as pos
sible. A plant will not thrive without the
sunbeam much less man.
2. Breathe as much fresh air as your bust.
ness will permit. This makes fresh blood
but it is never found within the four walls of
your building. Beneath the open sky, just
there, and only there, it comes to you.
3. Be strictly temperate. You cannot break
4. Keep the feet always warm and the head
cool. Disease and death begin at the feet more
commonly than we think.
5. Eat white bread when yOu cannot get
brown bread
6. If ouG of order, see which of the above
rules you have not observed, then rub yourself
all over with towel, saturated with salt wa.
ter an, we'll dried, and begin upon the rules
again.
I. Look ever on the bright, which is the
heaven side, of life. This is far better than
a medicine.
These seven simple rules, good for the valid
or invalid, if rightly observed, would save, /
apprehend, a deal Of pain, prolong your life,
and so far as health goes, make it worth the
having.
Will you, then, practice them ?-W. Way.
bridge, IN Boston 1Faceler
GARTERs.-Children should never wear gar
ters, as the stockings can be kept up perfectly
we'll by an attachment of elastic strips to the
waistband If garters are worn, it is lmpor-
tant to know how to apply them with the least
risk of harm. At the bend of the knee the
superficial veins of the leg unite and 60 deeply
into the under part of the thigh beneath the
hamstring tendons. Thus a ligature below the
knee obstructs all the superficial veins; but If
the construction is above, the hamstring ten
dons keep the pressure off the veins which re-
turn the blood from the legs. Unfortunately,
most people, in ignorance of the above facts,
apply the garter below the knee. ELASTIC bands
are the most injurious. They follow the move
ments of the muscles and never relax their
pressure upon the veins. NOn-elaStic bands,
during muscular exertion, become consdera-
bly, relaxed at intervals, and allow freer circu-
latiOn of the blood.
TANSY FOR BOTS.-About thirty years ago
a friend lost fine horse by bots. He took
from the stomach of the dead horse a gill of
bots and brought them to my office to expert
ment upon. He prepared every remedy he had
heard of, and put some of them into each.
Most of them had no effect some affected
slightly, but sage tea more than anything else;
that killed them III fourteen hours. He con-
cluded he would kill them by putting them in
nitric acid, but it had no more effect on them
than water. The third day they were as lively
as when put in. A bunch of tansy was grow
ing by my Office. He took handful, added a
little water, squeezed out the juice and put
some in. They were dead in less than mill
ute. Since then, I have had it given to every
horse have seen affected with bots, and have
nouar known If TO fail TO rive entire relief