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Remedy for Horse Distemper.

When an animal comes down with the
distemper it should be placed in quiet,
comfortable enclosure, where there is an
abundance of pure air and sunlight. The
windows of the stall should be covered
with netting of some kind to keep out
the flies, which are very annoying, even
to a healthy animal. Feed upon cut
grass and bran mashes, with an occa-
sional mess of apples or potatoes. Most
horses will prefer the former. Sour
apples sometimes appear to have better
effect than sweet fruit in cases OF dis
temper. Medicines should be given with
caution. Quinine is one of the latest,
and probably the most valuable of reme-
dies for distemper. In communication
to the Winterset Madasonian, MIR. l..
Broadhead, we'll known throughout the
country as the able superintendent and
agent of the worid:renowed Woodburn
Farm, Lexington, KY, where Maud S.
(o.OS4) and host of the brilliant lights
of the turf were bred, makes the follow
ing suggestions in treating distemper:
"Give weanlings from fifteen to twenty
grains of quinine day. We generally
give this quantity once day, but when
first taken and the fever is high give
about fifteen grains twice day, morn
ing and night. If the attack is mild,
give but one dose daily until the disease
has left the system. The quinine allays
the fever, sooths the inhamed throat and
is an excellent touc. So far it has cured
every case we have had, which, to the
present time, numbers not less than $50.
In the early spring We had several very
severe cases that I am sure we should
have lost had it not been for the quinine.
These were yearlings and we gave twenty
gran at a dose twice a day. Older
horses can have thirty grains at dose.
morning and night, making sixty grains
daily. Whenever fever exists in an ami
mails system, no matter from what cause,
use outline freely. 1t is almost specific
for lung fever, or pneumonia, when
administered in season. have cured
two cases of lock-jaw in sucklings
with quinine and altrophia, twenty
droops of the latter to dose. We are
not particular to weigh the quinine. we
guess at dose, put it in spoon, pull
the animals tongue aside without ele-
waiting its head, insert the spoon IN its
mouth, turn it over and wipe on the
tongue, as it is withdrawn from the
mouth. 1t is easily administered in this
manner, and the animal gets it all. 1t
is perfectly safe, and there is little if any
danger in giving too much. Ihave used
quinine four or five years. and always
with good results" Quinine can be OBJ
tanned of any druggist, and in getting a
supply we would recommend having it
put up in powders of twenty grains each;
then If thirty grain doses are wanted for
q grown animal, take three powders, di-
vide one equally and add it to the other
two, or if ffteen-grain doses are wanted
for weanling, take one.fourth, as near
as can be estimated, from each of these
powders, and place the three portions in
a paper by itself. This will give four
powders of fifteen grams each. Be care
full to get the pure article. 1t is an ex-
pensive drug, and when it is offered at
a low price is pretty sure to have been
adulterated. .-1mer,cd can Culti0dt0r.