I obtained them of him for the purpose of publication, and sincerely think I can recommend them to all who need them:

Take dog's grease, pt.; best oil of origanum, 11⁄2 ozs; pulverized cantharides, 1⁄2 oz. Mix, and apply each morning, for three mornings, heating it in with a hot iron each time; then skip 3 mornings, and apply again, as before, until it has been applied 9 times; after which wait about 10 days, and if it is not all gone, go over again in the same way.

He says it does not remove the hair, but that it cures the largest and worst cases. He gives a test for good oil of origanum, saying that much of it is reduced with turpentine; and if so reduced, that it will spread on the skin, like turpentine; but if good, that it does not spread on the skin, but stands, like other oil, where a drop is put on. I am not certain about the genuineness of this test; yet I find quite a difference in the spreading of the oils; for that which is known to contain turpentine spreads fast and freely, whilst that which is believed to be pure spreads very slowly, yet does finally spread. The pure is of a dark wine color, whilst the poor is of a lighter shade, and somewhat cloudy.

11. Spavin Liniment.-Oils of spike, origanum, cedar, British and spirits of turpentine, of each, 1 oz.; Spanish flies, pulverized, 1⁄2 07.

Apply once in six to nine days only-removes the lump of spavins, splints, curbs, etc., if of recent occurrence; and the man of whom I obtained it, says he has scattered poll-evils before breaking out, with cedar oil, alone.

12. Another.-Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each, pt.; gum camphor, laudanum, and oil of cedar, of each, 1 oz.; oils of hemfock and rhodium, and balsam of fir, of each, 1⁄2 oz.; iodine, 1 dr.; mix.

Apply night and morning, first washing clean and rubbing dry with a sponge; then rub the liniment into the spavin with the hand. It causes a gummy substance to ooze out, without injury to the hairhas cured ring-bones, also removing the lumps in recent cases. It cured the lameness in a case of three years' standing.

13. Splint and Spavin Liniment.-Take a large-mouthed bottle and put into it oil of origanum, 6 ozs.; gum camphor, 2 ozs.; mercu rial ointment, 2 ozs.; iodine ointment, 1 oz.; melt by putting the bottle into a kettle of hot water.

Apply it to bone-spavins or splints twice daily, for four or five days. The lameness will trouble you no more. I have had men cure their horses with this liniment, and remark that this recipe alone was worth more than the price of the book.

14. Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment, also good for Curbs, Splints, Ring-Rones, and Bone-Spavin.—Take pulverized cantharides, 1 oz ; mercurial, ointment, 2 ozs.; tincture of iodine, 11⁄2 ozs.; spirits of turpentine, 2 ozs.; corrosive sublimate, 11⁄2 drs. ; lard, 1 lb.

Mix well, and when desired to apply, first cut off the hair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in with the hand, or glove, if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with lard, and in two days more, wash off and apply the ointment again. Repeat the process every week, as long as necessary.

SWEENY-Liniment.-Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each, 8 ozs.; camphor gum, pulverized cantharides, and capsicum, of each, 1 oz; oil of spike, 3 ozs.

Mix.

Perhaps the best plan is to tincture the capsicum first, and use the

tincture Instead of the powder, by which means you are free of sediment; bathe this liniment in with a hot iron. The first case has yet to be found where it has not cured this disease when faithfully followed. 2. Another.-Sal-ammoniac, 2 ozs.; corrosive sublimate, 1 oz.; alcohol, 1 qt.; water, 1 qt.; pulverize and mix.

This last has cured many cases of sweeny, and also kidney_complaints, known by a weakness in the back, of horses or cattle. Bathe the loins with it; and give one to two table-spoons at a dose, daily.

POLL-EVIL AND FISTULA-Positive Cure.—Common potash, 4 oz.; extract of belladonna, 1⁄2 dr.; gum arabic, 4 oz. Dissolve the gum in as little water as practicable; then, having pulverized the potash, unless it is moist, mix the gum water with it, and it will soon dissolve; then mix in the extract, and it is ready to use; and it can be used without the belladonna, but it is more painful without it, and does not have quite as good an effect.

DIRECTIONS.-The best plan to get this into the pipes is by means of a small syringe, after having cleansed the sore with soap-suds; repeat once in two days, until all the callous pipes and hard fibrous base around the poll-evil or fistula is completely destroyed. Mr. Curtis, a merchant of Wheaton, Ill., cured a poll-evil with this preparation, by only a single application, as the mare estrayed and was not found for two months-then completely sound; but it will generally require two or three applications.

This will destroy corns and warts, by putting a little of it upon the wart or corn, letting it remain from five to ten minutes, then wash off and apply oil or vinegar, not squeezing them out, but letting nature remove them.

2. Potash, to Make.-If you cannot buy the potash, called for in the last recipe, you can make it by leeching best wood ashes and boiling down the lye to what is called black salts, and continuing the heat in a thick kettle until they are melted; the heat burns out the black impurities and leaves a whitish-gray substance, called potash.

This potash, pulverized and put into all the rat holes about cellars, causes them to leave in double-quick time, as mentioned in the "Rat Exterminator." The black salts will do about as well for rats, but is not quite so strong. They get their feet into it, which causes a biting worse than their own, and they leave without further ceremony.

Potash making in timbered lands is carried on very extensively; using the thick, heavy potash-kettle to boil and melt in," then dipping it out into three and five-pail iron kettles to cool.

3. Poll-Evil and Fistula-Norwegian Cure.-Cover the head and neck with two or three blankets; have a pan or kettle of the best warm cider vinegar, holding it under the blankets; then steam the parts by putting hot stones, brick, or iron, into the vinegar, and continue the operation until the horse sweats freely; doing this 3 mornings and skipping 3, until 9 steamings have been accomplished.

Mr. Marshall says, the pipes, by this time, will seem to have raised up and become loose, except the lower end, which holds upon the bone or tendons, like a sucker's mouth; the apparent rising being caused by the going down of the swelling in the parts. Now tie a skein of silk around the pipes and pull them out; washing the parts with weak copperas water until the sore heals up and all is well. He told me that he cured, in this way, a horse which had interfered until a pipe had formed at the place of interference, upon the leg, that when drawn out was as long as his finger. See the "Norwegian Cure for BoneSpavin."

4. Another.-Rock salt and blue vitriol, of each, 1 oz. ; copperas, 1⁄2 oz.; pulverize all finely, and mix well.

Fill a goose-quill with the powder, and push it to the bottom of the pipe, having a stick in the top of the quill, so that you can push the powder out of the quill, leaving it at the bottom of the pipe; repeat again in about four days, and in two or three days from that time you can take hold of the pipe and remove it, without trouble.

5. Poll-Evil, to Scatter.-Take a quantity of mandrake root, mash, and boil it; strain and boil down until rather thick, then form an ointment by simmering it with sufficient lard for that purpose.

Anoint the swelling once a day, for several days, until well. It has cured them after they were broken out, by putting it into the pipes a few times, also anointing around the sore.

6. Another.-Poll-evils and fistulas have been cured by pushing a piece of lunar caustic into the pipe, then filling the hole with currier's oil. Or:

7. Another.-Corrosive sublimate the size of a common bean, pulverized and wrapped in tissue paper, and pressed to the bottom of the pipes, leaving it in eight days, then take out, and applying the blue ointment, (kept by druggists,) has cured them. Or:

8. Another.-Arsenic, the size of a pea, treated in the same way, has cured the same disease. But if the Norwegian plan will work as recommended, it is certainly the best of all.

9. Another.-Oil of vitriol, put into the pipes, has cured many

cases.

I found one man, also, who had cured poll-evil by placing a barrel of water about fifteen feet high, on a platform, upon two treesadministering a shower-bath daily upon the sore; drawing the water by a faucet, through a dinner horn placed little end down; tying the horse so as to keep him in position until the water all runs out. Fif teen or twenty baths cured him, but it broke out again the next season, when a few more baths made a final cure.

LOOSENESS OR SCOURING IN HORSES OR CATTLE-In Use Over Seventy Years.-Tormentil root, powdered. DOSE.-For a horse or cow, 1 to 11⁄2 ozs. It may be stirred in 1 pt. of milk and given, or it may be steeped in 11⁄2 pts. of milk, then given from 3 to 5 times daily until cured.

It has proved valuable also for persons. DOSE.-For a person, would be from one-half to one tea-spoon steeped in milk; but if used for persons, I should recommend that half as much rhubarb de combined with it.

An English gentleman from whom it was obtained, had been familiar with its use nearly eighty years, and never knew a failure, if taken in any kind of seasonable time. The tormentil, or septroil, is a European plant, and very astringent.

2. Beef Bones for Scours.-Burn the bones thoroughly and pulverize finely; then give 1 table-spoon in some dry feed, 3 times daily, until checked.

This preparation has thirty years' experience of an American gentleman, near Fentonville, Mich., to recommend it to general

favor.

3. Scours and Pin-Worms of Horses and Cattle.-White ash bark, burnt to ashes, and made into rather a strong lye; then mix pt. of it with warm water, 1 pt., and give all, 2 or 3 times daily.

Whenever it becomes certain that a horse or cow is troubled with pin-worms. by their passing from the bowels, it is best to administer

the above, as they are believed to be the cause, generally, of scours, and this remedy carries off the worms, thus curing the inflammation by removing the cause.

HORSE OINTMENT-De Gray or Sloan's.-Resin, 4 ozs.; beeswax, 4 ozs.; lard, 8 ozs.; honey, 2 ozs. Melt these articles slowly, gently bringing to a boil; and as it begins to boil, remove from the fire and slowly add a little less than a pint of spirits of turpentine, stirring all the time this is being added, and stir until cool.

This is an extraordinary ointment for bruises, in flesh or hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, etc., etc.; or when a horse is gelded, to heal and keep away flies. It is excellent to take fire out of burns or scalds in human flesh also.

CONDITION POWDERS-Said to be St. John's.-Fenugreek, cream-of-tartar, gentian, sulphur, saltpetre, resin, black antimony, and ginger, equal quantities of each, say 1 oz.; all to be finely pulverized; cayenne, also fine, half the quantity of any one of the others, say Mix thoroughly.

It is used in yellow water, hide-bound, coughs, colds, distemper, and all other diseases where condition powders are generally adminis tered. They carry off gross humors and purify the blood. DOSE.-In ordinary cases give two tea-spoons once a day, in feed. In extreme cases give it twice daily. If these do not give as good satisfaction as St. Jolin's or any other condition powder that costs more than double what it does to make this, then I will acknowledge that travel and study are of no account in obtaining information.

2. Cathartic Condition Powder.-Gamboge, alum, saltpetre, resin, copperas, ginger, aloes, gum-myrrh, salts, and salt, and if the horse is in a very low condition, put in wormwood, all the same quantities, viz., 1 oz. each. DOSE.-One table-spoon in bran, twice daily; not giving any other grain for a few days; then once a day, with oats and other good feed.

This last is more applicable for old worn-down horses which need cleaning out and starting again into new life, and in such cases, just the thing to be desired,

HORSE LINIMENT-For Stiff-Neck from Poll-Evils.-Alcohol, 1 pt.; oil of cedar, origanum, and gum camphor, of each, 2 ozs.; oil of amber, 1 oz.; use freely.

2. English Stable Liniment-Very Strong.-Oil of spike, aqua ammonia, and oil of turpentine, of each, 2 ozs.; sweet oil and oil of amber, of each, 11⁄2 ozs.; oil of origanum, 1 oz. Mix.

Call this good for anything, and always keep it in the stable as a strong liniment; the Englishman's favorite for poll-evils, ring-bones and old lameness, inflammations, etc. If much inflammation, however, it will fetch the hair, but not destroy it.

3. Nerve and Bone Liniment.-Take beef's gall, 1 qt.; alcohol, 1 pt.; volatile liniment, 1 lb.; spirits of turpentine, 1 lb.; oil of origanum, 4 ozs.; aqua ammonia, 4 ozs.; tincture of cayenne, 1⁄2 pt.; oil of amber, 3 ozs.; tincture of Spanish flies, 6 ozs. Mix.

Uses too well known to need description. This is more particularly applicable to horse flesh.

4. Liniment for One Shilling a Quart.~Best vinegar, 2 qts.; saltpetre, pulverized, 1⁄2 lb.; mix, and set in a warm place, until dissolved.

It will be found valuable for spavins, sprains, strains, bruises, old swellings, etc.

BROKEN LIMBS-Treatment, instead of inhumanly Shooting

the Horse. In the greater number of fractures it is only necessary to partially sling the horse by means of a broad piece of sail or other strong cloth, (as represented in the figure,) placed under the animal's belly, furnished with two breechings and two breast girths, and by means of ropes and pulleys attached to a cross-beam above, he is elevated or lowered, as may be required.

It would seldom be necessary to raise them entirely off of their feet, as they will be more quiet, generally, when allowed to touch the ground or floor. The head-stall should be padded, and ropes reaching each way to the stall, as well as forward. Many horses will plunge about for a time, but soon quiet down, with an occasional exception. When they become quiet, set the bone, splint it well, padding the splints with batting, securing carefully; then keep wet with cold water, as long as the least inflammation is present, using light food, and a little water at a time, but may be given often.

The use of the different buckles and straps will be easily understood.

If he is very restive, other ropes can be attached to the corner rings, which are there for that purpose, and will afford much additional relief to the horse.

I knew a horse's thigh to crumble upon the race-course, without apparent cause, which lost him the stake he would have easily won. He was hauled miles upon a sled, slung, and cured by his humane owner. Then let every fair means be tried, before you consent to take the life, even of a broken-legged horse.

WOUND BALSAM-For Horses or Human Flesh.-Gum benzoin, in powder, 6 ozs.; balsam of tolu, in powder, 3 ozs.; gum storax, 2 ozs.; frankincense, in powder, 2 ozs.; gum myrrh, in powder, 2 ozs; Socotorine aloes, in powder, 3 ozs.; alcohol, 1 gal. Mix them all to