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calomel and antimony given in a ball eacli morning for three or four 

 doses. If the horse is too weak to bear the mercurial and purgative 

 treatment, sulphate of iron, with powdered quassia, will form a good 

 worm medicine. Half a drachm of the sulphate of iron, and half 

 an ounce of quassia made into a ball may be given every day, and 

 continued two or three weeks. 



No. 17. — Try common salt, of which a tablespoonful may be mixed 

 with the food daily, or a piece of rock salt may be kept in the 

 manger. 



FEEDING. 



BRAN. 



Dry bran mixed well with other food is not injurious, ex- 

 citing peristaltic action. But when given alone and dry, the animal 

 generally swallows it rapidly, and consequently it is imperfectly mas- 

 ticated and insufficiently insalivated. 



CARROTS. 



For slow work they form an excellent food given sliced and 

 with bran. Without bran or corn they do not seem to agree 

 nearly so well for working horses. Carrots produce fat more than 

 muscle, so that they do not supply the place of oats to any great 

 extent where hard work is required. Give 51b. or 61b. of carrots 

 twice a day. 



COLT, FEEDING OF. 



The adult horse does not require so much of the flesh-making 

 principle as the young and growing animal, but he seems to 

 require a greater variety. The adult merely requires enough 

 to replace the waste — the wear and tear of his system. With 

 the young and growing animal the case is different. We re- 

 quire bone, muscle, and nerve. Oats, corn, and pollard furnish the 

 same. The colt obtains from its mother's milk all the elements of 

 its own organization in a concentrated form ; therefore, when weaned, 

 the colt must be furnished with the same equivalents in the form of 

 fodder, ground oats, wheat bran, and meal. In addition to the food 

 required for the colt's growth, we must also furnish enough to supply 

 the waste incurred by expenditure of muscular power. They are 

 not, however, to have a large quantity at a time, but little and often. 



FATTENING HORSES. 



If you wish to make a horse up for sale, scald a pound of linseed 

 and give it to him mixed with a few sliced carrots, and his feed of 

 corn every night. 



