. Biggle horse book. Horses. w 68 AILMENTS AND REMEDIES Give doses of Glauber's salts daily and hot bran mashes. Give salts a half pound daily, A gill of rr/Ttv linseed oil every day w^ill be good, mixed with the bran. The horse which eats its own excrement does it for the acids it contains, which are voided in it and in the urine which it has absorbed. Give such a horse a pinch of cop- peras, bone dust, salt, ashes and saltpetre mixed in its meal once a day. A few days of pasturing is good. Horses snort and wheeze because of an enlargement of the glands in the nostrils. A skilled
. Biggle horse book. Horses. w 68 AILMENTS AND REMEDIES Give doses of Glauber's salts daily and hot bran mashes. Give salts a half pound daily, A gill of rr/Ttv linseed oil every day w^ill be good, mixed with the bran. The horse which eats its own excrement does it for the acids it contains, which are voided in it and in the urine which it has absorbed. Give such a horse a pinch of cop- peras, bone dust, salt, ashes and saltpetre mixed in its meal once a day. A few days of pasturing is good. Horses snort and wheeze because of an enlargement of the glands in the nostrils. A skilled veterinarian can remove the trouble by cutting it out. Doctoring will not cure snor- ing or wheezing horses. The air passages are stopped. A twenty-year-old horse was not doing well. Upon examination his front teeth were found to be so long that his grinders were kept from coming together, and he could not masticate his food. His teeth were filed off, and the sharp points evened with a float, and he is now doing as well as any of the younger horses. Watch the teeth of the old horse. An experienced horseman, if human, will not push his horse beyond his strength by Overriding ox Driving ; still at times an indiscreet driver will bring an animal to the verge of extinction, when it is well to know what to do for him. The symptoms are plain in the audible breathing, staggering gait, exhausted appearance and heaving flank. The girts must be removed and the face turned toward the wind, the animal being protected from the sun meantime. The head must be left free and the limbs and body well rubbed. The movement of tlie ribs should not be hindered in any way. A few swallows of cold water may be allowed, and in hot weather, the mouth, forehead and face may be sponged with it. When sufficiently revived the horse should be slowly led to a comfortable box-stall and heavily blanketed, woolen bandages being wound about the legs as well. If AILMENTS AND REMEDIESâCONTINUED. 69 the horse has fal
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