TREATMENT.—Clip the hair from over the Side Bone and rasp the foot below the enlargement, so that the hoof will be flexible on pressure from the fingers. Then apply the following to both the enlargement and the rasped surface of the hoof: Red Iodide of Mercury, two drams; Pulv. Cantharides, four drams. Mix well in two ounces of Lard and apply every forty-eight hours until three applications have been applied. If you must work the animal, put it to some easy work where it has soft ground to walk upon. STAGGERS. (_Forage Poisoning—Inflammation of the Brain_) (_Cerebral Meningitis_) CAUSE.—Certain plants or stagnant water are most commonly instrumental in producing staggers; frequently seen in the early autumn months when the grass in the pastures becomes dry and certain forage remains green which contains toxic principles. These plants are ravenously eaten by horses on account of being green and tender. This is one of the common causes of the disease, although moldy, indigestible or highly nitrogenous foods are frequently productive of staggers. This form of staggers is not contagious, although what produces staggers in one horse will also produce it in another. In this way several horses may become affected with staggers at the same time. Inflammation of the brain may occur as a complication of some infectious or digestive disease. Other causes are blows on the head, tumors in or on the brain, which naturally cause the animal to stagger, as the brain controls the horse’s power of locomotion.