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no ha}', but at night let him have clean wheat straw. For a hunter 

 you should not give the bran, except after hunting. If extra or 

 quick work is wanted increase the beans. Give no hay, but green- 

 meat or carrots in moderation, some say potatoes or swede turnips. 



Some authorities advise to turn the animal out to grass for the 

 summer ; if this is objected to, give succulent food, such as caiTots, 

 grass, very little hay, and no corn. The administration of two 

 grains of arsenic daily would be attended with benefit. Exercise 

 three hours daily. 



If the horse's wind improves by work you cannot do better than 

 give him plenty of exercise, with nutritious food, avoiding grass or 

 chaff in any quantity. Charcoal may be given in the food ; half an 

 ounce of the powder every day will be sufficient. Tar water is 

 highly spoken of by many who have used it. The dose will be half 

 a pint to a pint once or twice a day. 



Arsenious acid in two-grain doses given daily for several weeks is 

 also good. 



It has been advised to feed on mangold wurzel. Boil or steam 

 the mangolds (steaming is the best), and when well cooked mash 

 them into small lumps ; mix a little bran and a handful of hay- 

 chaff in each feed at the time of feeding. A moderate-sized horse 

 will require about 561b. of this mixture in twenty-four hours. 

 It will be better to give it warm, and four times a day. A horse 

 fed on this food requires very little hay, and will not drink much 

 water. If you ride or drive fast, it will be better to give three 

 feeds of oats, with a handful of beans in each feed every day, and 

 at night, after work is done, a feed of mangolds, about 141b., mixed 

 with bran and chaff. 



As a iTile the food should be given in as small a compass as pos- 

 sible, and the coat should be kept short. 



THOEOUGH-PIN. 



A thorough-pin may be defined to be wind-gall running from side 

 to side, occupying the hollow interval situated at the upper and back 

 part of the hock. It is an unnatural increase of the synovia in the 

 joint bags of the hocks caused by work. 



Hard up-hill work, when excessive exercise is forced upon the 

 hock- joint, may be reckoned among the chief exciting causes of 

 this disorder. 



Persistent pressure must be applied to the part by means of a 

 bandage, with two pads so arranged as to impinge directly upon the 

 enlargement. 



