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preferable. Half, or three-quarters of a pint of 

 warmed beer is the best vehicle for these ingre- 

 dients, or wash the ball down with the beer. 



Horse-bread, though seldom made in India, 

 is beneficial on many occasions during training. 

 When the muzzle is put on at nine o'clock, and 

 nothing given till feeding-time on return fi'om 

 exercise in the morning, there is a fast of nearly 

 twelve hours. This is just six hours too long. 

 Half a loaf of bread, given half an hour before day- 

 break, two hours before the gallop, would be very 

 serviceable to many horses, even when muzzled 

 at ten or twelve o'clock. Three quarters of a 

 pound of gram, or wheat-flour, with three quar- 

 ters of a drachm of ginger, two drachms of 

 anise-seed, and one ounce of ghoor, baked up 

 together into a large thick ap, can be given 

 instead. The following recipe will make good 

 bread, which the horse will in time grow fond 

 of, if habituated to it by very slow degrees, 

 daily giving a small bit when hungry: — Wheat- 

 flour and gram-flour, of each three pounds ; 

 finely-powdered anise-seed, two ounces ; finely- 

 powdered ginger, one ounce ; ghoor, three ounces. 

 Add the whites of a dozen eggs, well beaten 

 together, and as much beer, well up, as will 

 knead it. Bake in an oven into three loaves, 

 and commence giving when .one day old. 



