FEBRUARY 3, 1913 Treatment for Bots.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 3 February 1913, Page 6

FEBRUARY 3, 1913

Treatment for Bots.

Mi* 11, li. Vallis, " horse boss " on the Dungog-Gloucesfcer (New South Wales) railway construction works, gives what he believes to be a successful bot-fly cure as follows: " First drench the hoi'3e with lib of sugar dissolved in two quarts of new milk. This induces the grub to let go its hold and in about half an hour the auitual will get a little relief. Then dissolve 2oz of alum in a quart and a-half of warm water, and administer, This contracts the invader and stays it from getting on the wall of the j stomach again. Twenty minutes later give the horse a drench of a pint and a-half of warm linseed oil and .Voz of tincture of opium. Then give plenty of green fejd or bran aul boiled barley. I have never known this treatment to fail. Of course, the animal wants attention uutil strong again." This is practically die same treatment as that recommended some years ago by Professor Douglas Stewart, and wuich he said was reported to have given good re. suits ia New South Wales, viz: " Alter starving the animal for at ieast 21 hours, give one quart of molasses or dissolved sugar iu a quart of milk, and iu 30 minutes give 2oz of alum dissolved ia one quart of water followed in about an hour by a quickaciing laxative, such as Alb of Epsom salts, or two pirns of raw linseed oil." Professor Stewart, however, added that " tlio most common and safe remedy is from loz to 2oz of. turpentine mixed with the white of an egg * and given in one or two pints of raw linseed oil oa aa empty stomach. Though not wholly efficacious, its administration is often followed by the expulsion of a number of hots.''