28 HORSE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA. 



Syces are very partial to the practice of giving it, but 

 more for their own sakes than that of their horses. 



Carrots Contain but a small amount of nutriment 

 compared to their bulk, hence they are inapplicable 

 for forming a large proportion of the food of horses, 

 which are called upon to do fast work. The good 

 effects they produce on an animal's general health 

 recommend their use. They come into season during 

 the autumn, and may, with great benefit, be given in 

 quantities of 6 or 7fos. daily ; 2 or 31bs. will be sufficient 

 for race-horses. Parsnips are almost as good as carrots. 

 No other roots seem to be suitable to the horse, unless 

 when given, in a boiled state, to animals used for 

 slow draught. ~^^r 



" Carrots also improve the state of the skinTjThey 

 form a good substitute for grass, and an excellent 

 alterative for horses out of condition. To sick and 

 idle horses they render corn unnecessary. They are 

 beneficial in all chronic diseases of the organs connect- 

 ed with breathing, and have a marked influence upon 

 chronic cough and broken wind. They are service- 

 able in diseases of the skin. In combination with 

 oats, they restore a worn-out horse much sooner than 

 oats alone." (Stewart.) 



Dr. Voelcker points out, that the nutritive value of 

 different root-crops depends largely upon their state 

 of maturity ; that unripe roots are not alone poor in 

 sugar hence their decreased value but also contain a 

 number of organic acids (notably oxalic acid), and 

 imperfectly elaborated nitrogenous substances, which 

 appear to be the cause of their unwholesorneness ; that 



