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or the sensitive and dainty appetite of a horse 

 will be sure to take disgust. Potatoes, or yams, 

 should only be steamed, and turnips only par- 

 boiled ; but these had better not be given in large 

 quantities raw. Carrots and beet may be given 

 with impunity, and very wholesome they are ; be- 

 gin with a little. Turnips, carrots, and linseed- 

 meal, when continued for any length of time, im- 

 prove the skin and coat considerably. In the 

 hot weather, two or three of the large radishes, 

 called moolee, may also be given daily, stalks 

 and all; but the natives term them cold and 

 injurious, if water is drunk immediately after 

 them. A seer of me thee, boiled, and given 

 at each feed, in lieu of one of the seers of gram, 

 is also very good in some cases ; for this grain 

 has a double advantage, being very nourishing, 

 and its adhesive quality preventing its being 

 swallowed too quickly. Giving large quantities 

 of ghee, ghoor, and trash of this kind, is dis- 

 approved of ; and very properly so : but to a 

 horse displaying all his ribs, a seer of bajree 

 flour, six ounces of ghoor, and a wineglass of 

 ghee, baked up together into a large thick ap, 

 with half a drachm of ginger and two drachms of 

 anise-seed, and given after the morning's feed, 

 and the same again after the evening's feed, 

 if he can only be induced to eat it willingly, 



