80 STABLE MANAGEMENT. 



Hoof -picker (sum khodna). 



A hoof-picker can be made out of almost any 

 piece of rod-iron, and one should be hung up in 

 every stable. One for every four or five horses is 

 enough. 



Clothing (gurdaine). 



In Northern India, if horses are not clipped they 

 require in the winter at least two thick rugs, and if 

 they are clipped an extra one, as the climate from 

 November to the end of February is bitterly cold. 

 The ordinary country clothing, made out of "mundah," 

 and sold in the bazaars, called " jhools," keeps horses 

 warm and answers its purpose, and is cheap a rug 

 of this material costing about Ks. 3 ; but I think 

 myself that it is false economy to get it, and that 

 the horse-clothing made at the Muir or Elgin mills 

 at Cawnpore, or the Egerton mills at Dhariwal, in 

 the Punjab, although perhaps at first somewhat more 

 expensive, will in the end be found the cheapest, as 

 with care one suit of this will last many years, 

 whereas the country clothing is seldom much good 

 after a second winter's wear. This clothing is made 

 in all sorts of colours, and turned out in suits, and 

 is every bit as good as English manufactured. 



