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I have seen six taken from one mare tnat I had under treatment. Remember, the great princi ple in Uie treatment of colic, in all its forms, is to relieve pain. This also holds good in most diseases of horses. The doctor, if he fail to allay pain, cannot cure the disease.— JfcClure's I them es of the American Horse and Cattle and Sheep. Hide Bound. —This, properly speaking, is not a disease, but the symptom of a bad condition, “ out of sorts,” debility, etc. Treatment. Feed in large bulk, mixed feed — cut hay, corn meal, and bran in good proportion —with no more water than will keep the parti cles together. Give the following powder every night, for twelve nights: Powdered sulphate of iron, three drachms; powdered gentian root, four drachms. Mix. If the animal is fat and yet hide bound, substitute the following, of the above recommended : Take sulphuret of anti mony,'three drachms; sulphur in flour, three drachms ; sulphite of soda, half an ounce. Mix, and give in one dose, repeating it every night for two weeks. If in the winter, use an extra blanket. If in summer, give cut grass to eat. —/ bid. Mange, Itch, Psora, or Scabies. —Cause The result of an insect breeding and burrowing in the skin, and is called acari, a variety of mite or animalcule. Symptoms. At first, a fine crop of pustules, not at this time always seen, about the head and neck, and under the mane. By the horse nib bing himself against whatever he can get at, the hair falls otF, and exposes an angry and red-col ored skin, with red points and lines, fissures wrinkles, or scratches. After this condition, we luive dryness, scruffiness, baldness, and whitening of the skin, accompanied with great itchiness. Treatment. The best plan for curing this dis ease in horses, is as follows : Take a fine sea sand, such as is used by stable-men for soouring steel bits, and rub the affected parts well for a few minutes. Then wash the parts well with good soap and water, and a brush, after which dry them carefully. Then anoint with the fol low ing ointment: Powdered sulphur, one ounce hog’s lard, two ounces ; mix. The following is more cleanly : Liver of sulphur, or hepar of sul phur, two to three ounces; cold water, one quart; mix, and make a wash. This plan, with either of these mixtures properly applied, will not only kill the insect, but will effect a cure. This dis ease has baffled many who have attempted its SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. cure without first reaching the insect, by soour ing him out of his covering, and killing him with sulphur—a highly destructive article to parasitic life. Observe. This disease is contagious. Stall-posts, mangers, harness, combs, brushes, etc., used about the horse, should be subjected to great, heat either by boiling or steaming. Trees, gates, and rubbing-posts in the field, should be washed with water, and coated with a mixture of sulphur, lime and water. — Ibid. Sanded Mule.—Editors Southern Culti vator: —I see in the last number of the Culti vator that W. 11. McCord has lost a valuable mule from being sanded. The cause of their eating sand I cannot give, but will give a sure cure. When the mule is attacked, strap up one fore-foot, twist nose, grease your arm with lard, insert up the mule’s rectum —there you will find the sand as if packed ; draw it out by hand-lull, until the stomach is clear. Drench with 1 pint of lard and syrup—no amount of oil will do any good until the sand has been removed. Smitliville, Ga. E. N. N. Sanded Mule, &o. —Editors Southern Cul tivator: —Mr. W. If. McCord, Conyers, Ga., asks for information in reference to sanded mules. I had charge of a great many mules du ring the war—say 100 most of the time, and never lost but two during the whole time. The only remedy for sand is to give a dose of lard, and continue injections until the bowels are moved, and then keep the animal quiet, as it will work too much, and there will be very high inflammation. To distinguish sand from colic:—the symp toms are the same, excepting one cannot bleed a sanded mule in the mouth —no blood will conic. Palatka, Fla., Oct. 1870. A. Lock-jaw in Uorseh.—Editors Southern Cultivator : —I send you a recipe for lock-jaw in horses. To one half-pint of good whiskey, add one table-spoon full of powdered asafeetida given at one dose, and if no relief is afforded in two hours, repeat the dose, and the most obsti nate case will \it relieved, if not finally cured. I used this remedy myself last week on a horse that you could not get the bits between his teeth, and the first dose cured him. 11. W. YAUGIIN. Midway, S. C., October 20, 1870. 433