192 A HUNTING CATECHISM 



nothing better than the well-tried remedy of 

 turpentine and oil, but it is very necessary 

 that the turpentine is thoroughly incorporated 

 with the oil, being broken up into minute 

 globules before being administered. It is a good 

 plan to mix the turpentine first with the white of 

 a raw egg, putting them both into a soda-water 

 bottle, and giving them careful and energetic 

 shaking before adding them to the linseed oil. 

 Turpentine amalgamates more readily with white 

 of egg than it does with oil. This is especially 

 suited to the long round worms, and the small 

 ones with pointed tails. It is wise to follow 

 the physic with a course of Harvey's aconite 

 powders, which are so well known. 



The worst enemy is the bot, for no remedy 

 seems to have any effect upon it ; and to 

 its unsuspected presence is due much of the 

 unthriftiness that is often looked upon as a 

 necessary consequence of turning a horse out in 

 the summer ; and the recommendation to give 

 him a winter's run instead, though backed up 

 undoubtedly by the light of experience, is really 

 due to not having safeguarded the animal in 

 the summer-time from the attacks of the bot-fly 

 (the GEstrus Equi). 



It is surprising to see the indifference with 

 which this pest is regarded, even by those from 

 whom more care would be naturally expected. 

 Often when visiting horses at grass, at the 

 period when the parent fly is actively engaged 

 in laying her eggs, quantities of the latter may be 

 seen adhering to the horses' coats, only waiting 

 to be licked off and transferred to the animal's 

 interior, to undergo the next period of their 

 life stages. In the fields of skilful, educated 



