The Com fie at Jockey, 



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Chap. V. The fi^fi Dkt to be given in the ordering your Race-Horfe^ and 



the way to make it, 



FIRST, To make this Diet-Biead, you iliall take half a Builiel of 

 the beft Horfe-Beans, well fifted from any Seeds or Husks, or three 

 Pecks, if your Horfe be a great Feeder *, to the latter you muft put one 

 Peck of the beft Wheat you can get, to the former Quantitity proporti- 

 onably •, you may grind them, divided if you pleafe, and fb mingle them 

 afterwards, but in my Opinion they will be beft grc'jnd together, after 

 which Drefs the Meal as fine as you can, fo that there be few or no Husks 

 or Bran left in it^ then take the beft Ale-Yeft you can get, by no means 

 let it be Sour or Dirty, about three Quarts will do,and put to that as much 

 Water as will juft make the Meal up into Dough, which muft be Knea- 

 ded with all your ftrength in a Trough, or fome fuch like thing for that 

 jturpofe. If you are not ftrong enough to Knead it with your Hands 

 you may tread it with your Feet, being fure to leave no Knobs in it, 

 when it is throughly kneaded, cover it from the Duft, and let it remain 

 the fpace of an Hour^ then knead it again, and after you have lb done, 

 make your Loaves up about the bignefs of Six-penny Loaves or bigger if 

 you pleafe, and after you have baked them exceeding well in an Oven 

 take them out, fet them tranfverfe to cool, that is, with their Bottoms 

 upwards. 



When you have kept them three Days, which you muft do e'er you 

 give any of them to your Horfe for fear of making him fick, which if 

 they do, he will refufe to eat it for the future. 



The next thing to be obferved is, that if the Bread be moift or clam- 

 my, fo that It ftick to his Mouth and he cannot freely fwallow it, or do 

 leem not to like it, you muft cut it into thin fiices and dry it m the Sun or 

 if the Sun fliine not, in fome Stove, or by the Fire, but not too hard, then 

 take it and mix it with his Portion of Oats by fmalling it amongft them 

 fo that then he will eat it freely, and it will do him no harm, but be fure 

 to pare'away the Cruft,but note that you muft never give it him aIone,but; 

 always being crumbled and mixed with his Oats, the Quantity of Bread 

 you fo mix muft not exceed three or four fiices at a time. 



You having given him one Bait in the Morning about eleven or twelve 

 a-Clock vifit him again, and after well DreiTmg him, give him his Bait or 

 Portion of Diet as before, both of Bread and Oats. 



_ About two of the Clock or fomewhat later if you de%n not to Courff:" 

 him the following Day, and fb take the difknce of time as has been for- 

 merly obferved in all his Diets,only let his Motions be curioufly cbferved, 

 and each Aftion taken notice of, for by that you may know in what liking 

 or eftate of Body he is, and how he thrives upon hk Diet. 



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