Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1875 — Sure Remedy for Bots. [ARTICLE]

Sure Remedy for Bots.

Thb Department of Agriculture pub lishes the following experiments which a gentleman from Georgia tried and found effective in dispelling that serious trouble in horses. About thirty years ago a friend lost by bots a very fine horse. He took from the stomach of the dead horse about a gill of bots and brought them to my office to experiment upon. He made preparations of every remedy he had heard of and put some of them into each. Most had no effect, a few affected them slightly, but sage tea more than anything else; that silled them in fifteen hours. He concluded he would kill them by putting them in nitric acid, but it had no more effect on them than water; the third day they were as lively as when put in. A bunch of tansy was growing by my office. He took a handful of that, bruised it, added a little water, squeezed out the juice and put some in. They were dead in one minute. Since then I have had it given to every horse I have seen affected with bots and have never known it to fail of giving entire relief. My friend had another horse affected with bots several years later. He gave him the tansy in the morning and a dose of salts in the evening; the next morning he took up from the excretions three half-pints of bots. If there’s anything that commends the ordinary tramp to one’s sympathy it’s his invariable modesty. One rapped at a kitchen door near Springfield, Mass., recently, and mildly asked if there was any cider in the house. The lady gave him a drink, and he then remarked that some cake “ wouldn’t go bad at all.” This also being furnished he called for a couple of cigars, and getting them, too, lit one, put the other in his pocket and walked off, picking up en passant a new pair of woolen stockings that happened to be in'his reach. Gbken Tomato Pickles.—One peck of fresh green tomatoes sliced; sprinkle salt over them, let them stand one night, drain well, put in a kettle with cider or vinegar and water and scald twenty minutes; skim out and drain, throw out the vinegar and water, add one ounce each of pepper, allspice and doves, onefourth pound of mustard seed, one pound of sugar; simmer all day on the back of the stove,