But it is best to give a cordial ball, or from half a drachm to a 

 drachm of the sulphate of quinine daily after exercise, in a pint or 

 more of beer or porter, for a week or ten days. 



Again : On coming in from exercise in the morning, and before 

 they are fed, let your groom take a handful of common salt, and 

 with gentleness open the horse's mouth, and let the roof of the 

 mouth be with equal gentleness rubbed with the salt, not so hard as 

 to occasion abrasion of the skin, but still sufficiently so as to give 

 the horse a fair taste. 



Some advise to give the horse carrots, or a few raw potatoes or 

 turnips daily, and he will recover his appetite. Carrots are the best. 

 Again : Procure a small quantity of the herb called rue ; bind this 

 round the bit of the bridle with a piece of good twine, so that the 

 horse may champ on it during the time he is out. Allow him to 

 drink a little water (say twice or three times during the day, as 

 opportunity offers) ; a few " go-downs" will suffice, just sufficient to 

 wash the saliva into the stomach, and also do this after returning 

 home, before the bridle is taken out. It acts as a good tonic, and 

 generally, if not always, has the desired effect. 



Or administer tonics, both vegetable and mineral, together with 

 glycerine, one of the constituents of fat, mixed in the water the 

 animal drinks ; they increase the appetite, and give stamina to the 

 animal frame. 



Again : Put barley in a glazed pan and just cover it with boiling 

 water. Let it soak twelve hours, when mix some molasses with it, 

 so as to make a stiffish pudding. Only give a feed occasionally. 



Some put into water 1-i-lb. of broken oil cake, a gallon of water 

 to a pound of cake ; stir frequently, and give the horse the liquor 

 only daily with his chaff and corn. 



Others give daily a ball containing Idr. of sulphate of irOn, twenty 

 grains of powdered capsicum, and half an ounce of gentian, with a 

 sufficient quantity of honey to make a mass. Some artificial food 

 added to bruised oats, with a little bran and chaff, may tempt the 

 animal to eat, or you may try the plan of giving soup made by 

 boiling shank bones with enough water to make a strong jelly, 

 which should be mixed with bran to fomi balls ; these are to be put 

 into the horse's mouth twice or three times a day, until he acquires 

 a taste for the mixture. 



BALLS, TO GIVE. 



Where great difficulty is experienced in giving a horse a ball, and 

 you do not wish to throw him, get a good large truss of hay, and. 



