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with honey or ghoon, and given every night for a 

 week or ten days, the horse eating partly-boiled 

 food, and receiving only gentle exercise, is the 

 best alterative for improving appearance when 

 no particular complaint exists. It is also good 

 for preventing plethora. 



SHOEING. 



Various kinds of shoes and nails cannot be con- 

 structed in India : there are neither proper forges, 

 nor proper persons to superintend them. The 

 pattern here given is easily made, and will be 

 found to answer well for either a Racer, Charger, 

 or a Hunter, and be less productive of injury than 

 a broader web at the toes, which, being never 

 sufficiently beveled out, is consequently apt to 

 press on the sole, besides being more liable to 

 pick up stones. There is no occasion to discard 

 it when it becomes old and thin at the toe ; the 



of whole grain taken and ground, that would be upwards of 

 a kutcha seer and a quarter ; for eight maps, seers or powder- 

 canisters full of ungi'ound gi'am, will make eleven when 

 ground. A pooly of grass is about two pounds. 



