The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26
Farm and Home.
Cures for Diseases in Horses.
WRIGHT. aRAYsoN, CO.. TEXAS.

Cures for Diseases in Horses.
nv II. q. BRIGHT, aRAYsoN, CO., TEXAS.
wishing to make your valuable paper
If IA much importance as possibly can
for the welfare and prosperity OF the
farmers and stock-raisers. will give you
several cures for diseases OF horses, with
the name of disease and cure.
A CERTAIN CURE FOR FlsTULA, POLL EVIL
AND RING BONE:
Take one pint of spirits of turpentine,,
one ounce OF white vitrol, one ounce OF
corrosive sublimate, one stick OF lunar
caustic. one tablespoonful OF spirits OF
hartshern. Dissolve the lunar caustic
in small quantity Of water. have the
vitroi and sublimate thoroughly pulver-
lied. add all to the turpentine. To apply
To the disease, take cloth and place over
the part affected; then take hot smooth
ine-iron and move 1t slowly over the
cloth until the remedy has been thorough,
" driven in. When the fistula or poll
evil has been of long standing and mas
broken newly, use the preparation oy
bathing with a mop; this will cure any
case whatever in short tlme'
Bolts.
Tb;s troublesome disease can be cured
Nth mullen tea, or red precip tate
Take MULLEN and make two quarts OF
strong tea, give one quart. and In thirty
minutes give the other quart, this Kills
the Grub: take one teaspoonful OF red
nrecipitate. to which add flour OF suffl'
Client quantity to make the same into
stiff dough, using water or milk; make
into round bali, take hold of the tongue
and mil it out as far as you can. placing
the hall far back on the tongue. then let
90 the tongue and they will be GER am 70
swallow the dose; then move the am,
NAL around, not letting it lie down until
the medicine has done its WORK.
CURE FOR CoLIC.
Take one pint of whiskey. one-hali
mint of water, one-quarter Of pound OF
tna rifle powder, to be shaken up well
and drench with it, and in few minutes
the horse will be well.
cuRr FOR SWEENEY AND BIG SHOULDER
First take a small reed, and after cut
ting through the skin, blow up the part
affected well; then take the small blade
of a rocket. knife and probe the shoulder
or hin. whichever may be diseased, sew
eral times: then insert piece OF May
anple root, or polk root into the place
where YOU cut through the skin; let 1t
remain about thirty-six hours; at the end
If that time be certain to remove the root,
then keen the shoulder we'll creased with
an old bacon rind for several weeks, or as
long as the shoulder continues TO rum
when you will have cure.
CURE FOR FOUNDER FROM OVER FEEDING.
Take common gourd that has never
been cut, break it into pieces, take seed
and all and boil them until yoa make
strong tea after straining the tea add one
teacup of sal soda, one tablespoonful Of
the spirits of turpenine. Shake we'll be.
fore using. Make about three pints Of
gourd tea, drench with one-half. and IN
twenty minutes with the other half, and
YOUR horse or mule will be ready for use
and in twenty-four hours you will MOI
know that he was ever foundered.-Jo~r.
nf Anric.lltnre.
SPREADING MANURE. method oil
throwing the manure. as it is hauled out,
into small heaps is sometimes objection
able and sometimes to be preferred. 1t
is Objectionable and injurious when it
remains in that state for a heightened
period. 1t contains. when in the ordina-
ry condition in which it is found at this
season. about per cent of soluble mat
ter. One small shower falling upon a
heap OF three or four bushels will wash
out of it a large portion of soluble mat
ter, enriching excessively the small por-
ton of the ground upon which it rests,
and depriving the larger part over which
it will finally be spread OF its due share.
The crop will show the result by an ex-
cessive growth in those spots where the
heaps were placed. This excessive
growth is an injury, and doubly SO; a
waste occurs tn two ways; grain will
lodge or BIZ affected by rust or smut from
rank growth in some places, and it will
be robbed elsewhere; in the same way,
corn will run to stalks from overfertility
in these places. and make weak growth
in others. This is 80 obvious, and has
been so often observed, that it is sur.
prising that 80 many farmers still per-
sist in the practice. But in some cases
the practice is convenient. Twenty loads
day may be hauled and dropped in
small heaps, thus releasing the team
from waste of time in waiting whle
manure is spread; and as soon as Ger.
tain quantity is dropped, a spare hand
may be employed to do the spreading
while the team is at work covering.
From the foregoing it will be gathered |
that this work is essentially one for
early spring. 1t may be done when the
ground is too wet 10 be plowed, or while
it is still crusted with frost. Better
still, it may be done by means Of sheds
on the last snow with much economy of
labor. and an onerous labor is cut of the
wav before the hurry of blowing and
sowing comes.