Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . OCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. not to wash them at all. When clean, apply casmoline, petrolina, arnicajelly, carbolic salve, or an ointment made of lard and pounded alum inequal parts. Any of these may he applied, both when coming in and whengoing out. If they get very bad, give him a few days rest. If proud fleshsprings up
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . OCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. not to wash them at all. When clean, apply casmoline, petrolina, arnicajelly, carbolic salve, or an ointment made of lard and pounded alum inequal parts. Any of these may he applied, both when coming in and whengoing out. If they get very bad, give him a few days rest. If proud fleshsprings up in the cracks, burn it down with bui-nt alum. If necessaryto rest the horse for them, give him a tcaspoonful of saltpetre in thefeed morning and night for three or four days. Prevention.—Never wash the feet and legs in cold or wet weather, sayafter November 1st, till April. It is good for them to be washed in warmweather; it softens the dry, hard hoofs, and cools off the horse whenheated ; but it is objectionable in cold weather. When coming in fromcold slush and mud, dry and (tlean the feet and legs thoroughly. VI, Grease. Grease is the name given to a disease of the lower jjartsof the legs thatseems to be ascgravated scratches, ])ut it is entirely distinct from.
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