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 smut and other impurities. When the wheat is dried too much the outside of the kernel, which should be separated from the flour by the boult, is ground so fine that it passes through the boult, with the flour. An experienced miller advises to moisten wheat which is in this situation by sprinkling it with a little water about 10 or 12 hours before grinding. But if this is neglected a slight sprinkling of the wheat in the hopper during the time of grinding it will be of service; taking care not to wet it too much, and by stirring the grain to distribute the moisture as equally as possible among the whole mass.

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TO cure this disorder let the horse have good nourishment, much corn and little hay; and let the water given him every day be impregnated with half an ounce of salt petre, and two drachms of Sal Ammoniac.

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SEE "," page 37.

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ON the first appearance of wind-galls their cure should be attempted by restringents and bandages, for which purposes let the swelling be bathed twice a day with vinegar, or verjuice alone, or let the part be fermented with a decoction of oak bark, pomegranates and alum boiled in verjuice, binding over it with a roller, a woollen cloth, soaked in the same. Some for this purpose use red wine lees, others curriers' shavings