If you would have healthy horses, with pure blood and slick hair, every time you feed them give them a pinch of equal parts of pulverized sulphur, wood ashes and salt, equal to the size of a common marble mixed with their feed. This is cheap and simple, and will keep your horses healthy. The Indians keep their horses in good condition with ashes and eggs.

Never Bleed a Horse

God never made more blood than was actually needed in the veins and arteries of a horse. When disease is in existence all the vital force they have is needed, and blood gives vital force, and when it is taken away weakens the system for nothing.

Eye Water for Horses

 Sugar of Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 drachm.
 Tincture of Opium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 drachms.
 Soft Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 pint.

Mix, and wash the eyes two or three times a day.

Healing Oil for Unhealthy Ulcers.

 Tannic Acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 drachm.
 Mutton Tallow, melted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces.
 Olive Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ounces.

Mix while hot, and apply twice a day after cleansing the wound or ulcer with castile soap and rain water, keeping the wound covered and protected from the air, flies, and dirt.

How to Cure Distemper

Keep your horse well sheltered in a good dry stable, feed on light food, such as oats and rye straw, and take tar and feathers and burn them on a spade or shovel, and let the horse thoroughly inhale the smoke three or four times a day, and your horse will soon be well.