THE horse-keeper's GUIDE 



Mix this up into a ball with palm oil or lard, and give it, 

 having prepared the horse for it by warm mashes given a 

 day or two before the purgative ball, and give him only 

 warm water to drink, and a few warm mashes after, as 

 well as before the medicine. 



A ball is a convenient mode of administering medicine 

 to horses : it should be made of the size of or rather less 

 than a pullet's egg ; linseed meal, or molasses, may be ad- 

 ded to the ingredients of which the physic is to be compo- 

 sed, to form it. In giving it, let the horse stand, with a 

 halter on it, with its head turned out of the stall, place 

 yourself before the horse, and let an assistant stand on the 

 left side, to steady the horse's head, and keep it from ri- 

 sing too high : sometimes he may be required to hold the 

 horse's head. Seize the horse's tongue in your left hand, 

 draw it out a little, and place your little finger fast upon 

 the lower jaw : with your right hand cany the ball smartly 

 alono- the roof of the mouth, and leave it at the root of the 

 tongue ; close the mouth, and hold the head till you ol> 

 serve the ball descend the gullet on the left. — If the hcrse 

 seems loth to swallow the ball, give a little water, and Che 

 ball will soon disappear. 



THE KM*. 



