For a Bowel Trouble.

What can I do to relieve a horse that balls up on alfalfa at the time of the first symptoms?  I have been bothered considerably with this, and although I know the symptoms, I can never seem to relieve the pain before the veterinary is called.

Give the following prescription:  Fluid extract Cannabis Indica, 3 ounces; sulphuric ether, 2 ounces; spirits turpentine, 3 ounces; oil peppermint, 10 drops; raw linseed oil, 24 ounces.  Mix.  Give one-half at once, balance in one hour.  If not relieved give several hotwater soap-sud injections.

Abnormal Thirst of Horse.

I have a horse with an abnormal desire for water.  I notice that in drinking she always wants more than the others.  I also notice she perspires more freely in the harness and even will sweat in the barn at night.

Your horse has kidney affection, probably due to feeding hay rich in alkalines.  Treatment:  Change the feed and give 1 quart of thick flaxseed tea three times daily.

Scours.

Kindly recommend a treatment for a horse troubled with scours.  He is on dry feed, but the trouble continues.

Give very little water mornings and while worked, but give plenty at night.  Feed dry rolled oats, oat hay, one handful of whole flaxseed at night, and the following powder:  Bismuth subgalate, 4 ounces; iron sulphate, dessicated, 8 ounces; bismuth subnitrate, 8 ounces.  Mix, and give a heaping teaspoonful each morning.

Depraved Appetite.

I have a colt about one year old that continually delights in chewing up harness, ropes, chews on the manger and, in fact, anything it can get a hold of.

This is a condition caused by something being lacking in the system (lime, salts, etc.).  Give plenty of salt, good food, grain, etc.  Get this prescription:  Iron sulphate, 2 ounces; soda syposulphate, 4 ounces; Gentian root pulv., 2 ounces; ginger, 1 ounce.  Mix and give teaspoonful daily.

Good Dentist Needed.

I have an old horse which has always been fat and quite full of life until right lately.  Now he is getting thin and looks bad.  He eats his food all right.  I had his teeth fixed a few weeks ago.  The man said they were bad and he fixed them as well as he could.

There is probably an excessively long molar projecting into a cavity and the projecting molar should be cut off by a qualified veterinarian.  The horse will begin to pick up and grow fat almost as soon as the condition is relieved.  Most horse owners will permit every person with a float to ruin a horse’s mouth without inquiring whether the dentist possesses proper qualifications as certified by a State license and diploma.

Kidney Trouble.

My horse has some trouble in passing water.  What can I give him that may be put in the mash?  I don’t think his trouble is due all to old age, for it didn’t come on gradually.

Give gran. sal nitre:  a teaspoonful daily in water is good to stimulate the kidneys.