220 PHYSICKING YEARLINGS. 



straw beds for three weeks or a month. Under 

 these circumstances it would be necessary, to as- 

 sist in keeping their legs cool and in shape, and 

 also to prevent them from getting too fat in their 

 insides, to have recourse to the reserve doses, by 

 giving, in addition to the two first, not only a 

 third dose of physic, but perhaps even a fourth. 

 For the second class colts, as they do not require 

 to be in as strong work as those of the first class, 

 two doses of physic each will be suflBcient, unless, 

 as I have already noticed, a frost should set in, 

 when a third dose may be necessary ; but I should 

 say not otherwise. The third class colts are too 

 delicate to do any thing like work, they therefore 

 seldom or ever want medicine, unless labouring 

 under disease. 



The reader may now form some idea of the 

 purposes for which physic is given to colts or 

 horses in health, either in or out of training. 



