BOB ON THE HORSE. 43 



been thin in flesh, in the hands of the sparing 

 keeper, changes to the stable of the good keeper, 

 yon very soon find his hide loosening without 

 any medicine, but that found in every well sup- 

 plied granary. It has been the theory of a great 

 many excellent stock growers that it is better for 

 the horse to be allowed to run down in flesh at 

 least once a year, and there is no doubt what- 

 ever that from man to the most minute of the 

 biped or quadruped, that the more fleshy, and 

 the longer they remain in that particular state, 

 the more indolent they naturally become; par- 

 ticularly with brutes, where nature alone, and 

 not the force of circumstances, or ambition to 

 acquire wealth steps in, and impels to physical 

 energy. But if actually requiring physic, give 

 the horse by drench in as little water as will dis- 

 solve from to 1 Ib. of Glauber Salts, repeated 

 as often as necessary, or Barbadoes Aloes, from 

 1 to 2 ounces, according to age and size, repeat- 

 ing dose as often as required. 



BOTS AND WORMS, 



The former of these (Bots) has in all former 

 ages been considered one of the direst calamities 

 that has ever infested the horse; and there is 

 probably nothing in all the round of natures ills 

 less understood than this subject, which by men 

 of the greatest science and research of the pres- 

 ent day are considered harmless, unless accumu 

 lated in such numbers in the stomach as to im- 

 pair digestion; and we may say of worms, tha 



