Quarter Cracks

Cut top of hoof above the crack deep enough to draw blood.  Soak foot in hot water, apply Pratts Peerless Hoof Ointment and cover with oakum.  Pare out sole and open heel—­blacksmith must use care in expanding.  Apply Pratts Peerless Hoof Ointment daily to the coronet and frogs—­this is very important.  Use bar shoe.

Thin Flesh

Animal needs a good tonic.  Use Pratts Animal Regulator daily with the feed according to directions.  This is a regulator, tonic and digestive and so works upon the blood, liver, bowels and digestive organs that the animal is quickly built up, and is given strength, health and flesh.

Thrush

Symptoms.—­Shown by a foul discharge issuing from the cleft of the foot, and usually attended with decay of the horn and a vile odor.  The foot is hot and hard.

Cause.—­In the fore feet, it is generally the result of navicular disease or contraction of the feet.  In the hind feet it is entirely caused by filthy stables, allowing the feet to stand in decaying manure.

Treatment.—­Have absolute cleanliness in the stable and stalls, disinfecting with Pratts Disinfectant.  Wash the foot thoroughly with soap and water, and cut away all diseased and ragged parts as well as the white, powdery decayed horn and substance, even if the flesh is exposed and the frog much reduced.  Then pour Pratts Liniment over the affected parts.  Dress daily until cured.  Another excellent remedy is to wash out diseased portion of hoof with one part Pratts Disinfectant and 20 parts of water three times a day.

Worms

Horses take in worm eggs on pasture, in hay, and in drinking water from contaminated troughs or ponds.  Marsh or swale hay is particularly liable to infest with worms.  Avoid sources of worms.  Cleanliness is imperative.

Cut down feed one-half, mix bran with feed and dampen it.  Give one dose of Pratts Specially Prepared Worm Powder with the feed twice a day for four days.  After fourth day give large, soft, well-scalded bran mash to loosen bowels freely.  Repeat the bran mashes if necessary, as the bowels must be moved freely.  Should the horse refuse to eat the bran mash, it will be necessary to give him a dose of Glauber’s salts, or some other purge to loosen the bowels.

Pin Worms.—­Sometimes pin worms remain just inside the rectum, and are very hard and stubborn to cure.  In cases of this kind, if the desired result is not obtained by feeding Pratts Worm Powder, dissolve one of the powders in a quart of water and inject in the rectum.  Repeat this once a day in the evening, and continue for four or five days.  Do not fail in this case, as in all other cases of worms, to feed bran mashes until the bowels are freely moved, and should the horse refuse the bran mash or should it fail to move the bowels, give the horse a dose of Glauber’s salts.