THE TREATMENT OP THE FOAL 17 



recognition, feed on green wheat or barley.^ It stonld be cut 

 fresh every three hours, as it becomes distasteful after being cut a 

 few hours. When the horse stops eating of its own accord, the 

 sais should cram ^ it. Three hours later he should give the horse 

 2 lbs. of bran, in which he has mixed sometimes 8 ozs. of 

 green ginger,^ and sometimes the same amount of fresh garlic. 

 Sometimes give one and sometimes the other, as this prevents the 

 horse's teeth from getting tender by gorging on green qasU. In 

 addition to the above, it is a good thing to smear the small stalks* 

 of the wheat with clarified butter (ghJ), using not less than a pound 

 of the latter. The horse should on no account be fed on grain 

 while being thus fattened. The horse, too, must be kept in a very 

 dark stable, with only a small native lamp burning night and day. 

 Neither curry-comb^ nor brush ^ must be applied to its body; the 

 horse must not be groomed at all. Once a day smear all over its 

 body the urine and dung it has evacuated during the previous 

 twenty-four hours. Persist in this treatment for forty days and 

 then see the result.'' 



Anothee Method. — In the hot weather feed on equal quantities 

 of parched barley and parched gram, coarsely ground^ and mixed 

 together. Give morning and evening in place of the ordinary feed 

 {ddna). Do not consider that this is mere food : it is also a medicine 



* Green wheat or barley is properly called khamd only so long as it 

 consists of green leaves with stalks. It is first given when seven or eight 

 inches high. In the Panjab it is generally called qasll. 



2 Galiydnd, " to cram horses, or fowls, &c." 



' The following is given in practice : Equal parts of green ginger, 

 red chillies, garlic, and salt, pounded in a pestle and mortar. When the 

 horse's mouth is affected by the qafil it stops eating. Then 1 oz. of 

 this chatrii is given by hand, the horse being "crammed" native-fashion, 

 if necessary. The chatnl requires to be given two or three times a day. 



* Thattl, apparently an error for datthi, f., '• a small stalk." 

 ^ Khar-khara. 



* HattM, " a hair glove or a brush for horses." 



7 This is what dealers call band-qasil. Nearly all horses brought to 

 the spring fairs have been subjected to this treatment. At the end of the 

 forty days when the horse is taken out, it is covered with soft fat, and 

 its coat is sleek and shining. The horse benefits by the absolute rest in 

 a dark stable ; and possibly, having nothing to look at, it eats more than 

 it would do in the light. 



8 Arddwd, " coarsely gi-ound." In Delhi the word means gram 

 crushed like coarse dtd. Saises often call crushed barley arddvd, but 

 generally the term means a mixture of barley and gram crushed. 



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