BREEDING. yi 



fication of the expectant foal, which is al- 

 ways in fome degree obftrud:ed, it not to- 

 tally fupprefied, by the leaft indifpofition of 

 the dam. 



The madi may be repeated twice every 

 day, with plenty of the beft hay, and oc- 

 cafional fupplies of the water before- men- 

 tioned, till her recovery is fiifficiently efta- 

 blidied, and the v/eather proportionably 

 calm for her enlargement, in the way above- 

 defcribed, had no difficulty intervened. 

 Should the fame laffitude and dejedlion con- 

 tinue more than four and twenty hours, 

 after thefe methods have been adopted, 

 bring into immediate ufe a dozen of the 

 cordial peftoral balls from ** The Geiide- 

 man*s Stable Directory, Vol. I.'* and let one 

 be given every night and morning in its 

 prepared ftate, or diiiolved in half a pint of 

 gruel, and adminiftered as a drink, or in- 

 corporated with each ma(h at the ftated 

 periods, till the whole are taken ; continu- 

 ing the aids of ma/Jjes, warm watery nurf- 

 ing^ and cloathing, (if fy mptoms of great 

 cold appear) till every appearance of com- 

 F 4 plain 



