WATER. 



Water (pani). 



Horses prefer soft to hard water, and are par- 

 ticularly partial to rain-water. Many horses refuse 

 to drink at all from a running stream, unless very 

 thirsty, and even then will not take as much as 

 is necessary. Mules, which in other respects are 

 hardy animals, are very dainty and particular about 

 their water. Such horses should be watered either 

 out of a bucket or a still pool. In mountain and 

 quick running streams there is often a large quantity 

 of sand and small gravel held in suspension, that 

 sinks to the bottom in places where the current 

 runs slow. I have seen more than one death caused 

 by constantly watering horses in such streams, by 

 the animal swallowing a quantity of such sand; it 

 accumulates in large masses in the intestines, and 

 causes "sand colic." If it is necessary to water 

 horses from such places for any length of time, if a 

 suitable pool cannot be found where the water is 



