46 FOOD VERSUS PHYSIC. 



age they require an immense amount of repose. Now, 

 as at all other times when they are working hard, 

 there should be no limit to their allowance of food. A 

 craving for food will always induce a bad and irritable 

 temperament ; a sufficiency of food, contentment and 

 good temper. 



Unless the colt be within three or four weeks of 

 running, a few carrots, a handful of vetches, rye-grass, 

 &c., now and then, will stimulate the digestion and cool 

 the system generally, as well as prevent the necessity 

 of flying to drugs in all cases of slight derangement. 



At this age there is no medicine so good to counter- 

 act undue astringency, worms, hidebound, &c., as one 

 drachm of emetic tartar, given in a bran mash, every 

 day for a week ; but, on no account, to be continued 

 longer. The safest rule is, whenever the use of 

 this drug produces running of the saliva, sickness, or 

 looseness of the secretions, to discontinue its use at 

 once. 



The shoes of a two-year old should be made as light 

 as possible, and on no account be allowed to remain 

 on over two weeks ; and indeed at this age it would 

 always be w r ell if the walking could be done on dragged 

 and harrowed fallows, where the whole of the foot 

 could bear the pressure, . instead of the mere crust, 

 which is too weak to bear the whole of the weight with 

 impunity. 



Great care should be paid to the state of the mouth, 

 as the teeth are far more often affected than is generally 

 supposed. 



