TREATMENT FOR BOTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 9 December 1913, Page 6

TREATMENT FOR BOTS.

The following treatment has been to ted on a large number of animals and proved successful by the I'nifed States Department ; of Agriculture. It is said that it "will remove hois within 24 to 48 hours. The day preceding the treatment a small amount of hay and a moderate amount of oats, are given in the morning; in the evening, food is withheld and a purgative given —Barhadoes aloes, loss., or raw linseed oil, 1 pint. The day of the treatment, at 0 o’clock in the morning, give drachms of carbon bisulphide in gelatine capsule; at 7 o’clock repeat fhe dose in the same man-iei .and at 8 o’clock give the third and last dose, making in--all 1) drachms of carbon bisulphide in three gelatine capules. The above treatment is for the adult horse. For a yearling colt half the quantity of carbon bisulphide usecTfor a mature horse will give the desired results. If properly'administered; the gelatine capsule reaches the stomach intact, hut 'soon dissolves, and the carbon' bisulphide rapidly evaporates, suffocating ' all hot larvae and other parasites with which it comes in contact, hut not injuring the horse. Worms are quite often expelled as ■well. ••