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Show TREATMENT FOR SCOURS IN HORSES Sometimes scouring seems to bo the result In young horBcs of too sovcro uso iit either road or draft work says David Iluffum In Farm and Firesldo. At other' times it appears to bo a constitutional weakness, always exhibited ex-hibited when tho horso Is called upon fcr anything out of tho ordinary. Cut feed that is, hay or straw run thru u cutting machine, wet up a littlo and mixed with monl will sometimes cause It. Tho horso should havo n reasonable, amount of good, sweet hay fed entirely dry, and his proper ration ra-tion of grnin. Last year I cured i very bad case by simply giving tho horso threo months run In good pas-turo, pas-turo, then feeding ns abovo and us Ing rather moderatoly for a couple of months. This Is what I would d-vise. d-vise. If his f'oed, however, Is what It ought to bo It might bo well to fry tho following treatment: First glvo ' fifteen or twenty drops of tincture of I nconlto root In water. Tho following dnv glvo h powder compounded ns follows: fol-lows: Prepared chalk, flvo drams; pulverized catechu, ono dram; pulverized pulv-erized opium, ten grains; mix thor oufihly. Give threo of theso powders a day, then skip ono nnd glvo threo moro. Do suro during tho treatment thnt tho horso hns plenty of water I cannot promise that his treatmen' ' (which is tho treatment for acute diarrhea) will effect a euro, but It U worth trying. Tho best road for acute ac-ute I think lies In giving tho colt a good run at grass nnd afterward being be-ing very careful about his diet, feeding feed-ing nothing that might Irrltato tho stomach or bowels and using moderately moder-ately until he oeems hotter. |