TREATMENT FOR BOTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 85, 10 December 1913, Page 6

TREATMENT FOR BOTS.

The following treatment has been te ted on a large number of animals, and proved successful by tbe Tinted States Department of Agriculture. It is said that it will remove hots within ‘24 to 48 hours. The day preceding the treatment a small amount of bay and a moderate amount of oats: are given in the morning; in the evening, food is withheld and a purgative given —Barbadoes aloes, loz., or raw linseed oil, 1 pint. The day of the treatment, at 6 o’clock in the morning, give 8 drachms of carbon bisulphide in gelatine capsule; at 7 o’clock repeat the dose in the same mauuei uuul at 8 o’clock give the third and last dose, making in all 1) drachvis of caroon bisulphide in three gelatine capules. The above treatment is lor the adult horse. For a yearling colt halt the quantity of carbon bisulphide used for a mature horse will give the desired results. If properly administered, the gelatine capsule reaches the stomach intact, but soon dissolves, and the carbon bisulphide rapidly evaporates, suffocating all hot larvae and otbe. parasites with which it comes' in contact, but not injuring tbe horse. Worms are quite often expelled as well.