This is gangrenous dermatis, a gangrenout inflammation of the skin.  It is due to mould, must or vegetable fungi.  Remove to a new pasture, give food free from the fungi, and apply the following ointment to the skin:  Lanoline, 8 ounces; zinc oxide, 1 ounce; Pearson’s Creoline, 1/2 ounce; tannin, 3 drachms; mix and apply once daily.

Shoulder Injury on Mare.

A young mare that bruised her shoulder on the point with collar.  It was lanced and now has a hard lump or callous, about three inches in diameter.  What is best to do?  She is not lame, but it would interfere with the collar.

Get a qualified veterinarian to operate and entirely remove the growth or you may use the following mixture to see if it will not cause it to partly absorb and then use a dutch collar or a specially padded collar:  Compound tinct. iodine, 4 ounces; sulphuric ether, 2 ounces; oil cedar, 2 ounces; turpentine, 4 ounces; mix and apply once daily until blistered.

Horse with Worms.

What is the best remedy for a horse that has worms?  I would like to know, as I have a horse that is getting poor with this trouble.

Mix 1/2 pound pulverized and dried iron sulphate and 1/2 pound bicarbonate of soda, and give one teaspoonful each morning until the medicine is gone.  After the last dose give the following:  Turpentine, 2 ounces; fluid extract male fern, 1/2 ounce; Pearson’s Creolins, 1 ounce; raw linseed oil, 1 pint.  Mix and give all at one dose.  To improve the general condition one may give artificial Carlsbad salts, 1 tablespoonful in each feed, and each dose to have added to it 3 to 5 grains arsenious acid.  If plenty rock salt is allowed for horses to lick, they will be protected against intestinal parasites to a slight but useful degree.

Is It Mange?

We have a horse five years old that is always scratching and biting himself as if he had mange or lice.  He seems to itch more on his shoulders and front legs than any other place.  We have washed him with a carbolic wash, also with a tea made from tobacco, but so far have been unable to stop it.  He often bites his legs below the knees until he takes off all the hair and part of the skin.  None of the other horses are, troubled, although this horse has been troubled for three years.

Apply the following:  Lysol, 1 ounce; kerosene, 4 ounces; formalin, 2 drachms; cotton seed oil, 9 ounces.  Mix and apply once daily after washing with hot sheep dip solution 10 to 100.

Horse with Itch.

For about a year my horse has been itching so badly that he has rubbed off all the hair on certain parts of his body.  Lately he bites his tail.

Whitewash the stall once weekly, scrub the harness, brushes, combs and every stable appliance that he has come in contact with.  Don’t use the same appliance on other animals that you use on this horse.  Use the following mixture once daily on affected spots:  Milk of sulphur, 4 ounces; tincture of iodine, 4 ounces; turpentine, 4 ounces; kerosene, 16 ounces; cottonseed oil, 120 ounces.