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 knife. This practice must be continued during the season of them. The eggs should not be scraped off where the horse can feed, as in that case the young botts may be taken in. It is difficult to remove those eggs which are laid under the throat, with a knife, but they may be destroyed with a hot iron made for the purpose.

Palliative Means.

BLOOD letting and the copious use of mild oils will always palliate, and sometimes cure that disorder.

Cure.

A WRITER in the American Centinel gives the following recipes.

Take a table spoonful of unslacked lime, and let it be given with the water or feed of a horse at night and morning for three or four days, and it will completely expel the botts.

Another Cure.

MAKE a drench composed of half a pint of new milk, a gill of molasses, an ounce of copperas, two table spoonfuls of common salt, and half a pint of warm water. Give this to the horse, once or twice a day, for a few days, and it will be sure to relieve him.

But the remedy on which we should rely with the most confidence is the following which we are told by a gentleman of undoubted veracity is

 An infallible remedy for Botts.

APPLY spirits of turpentine to the outside of the breast and stomach of a horse and the botts will