72 "^ FOEEGOI^^G MODES. 



water is a powerful sedative, and if applied freely to tlie skin 

 generally, its effects are known to be soothing and grateful in the 

 extreme. AVhoever applies it, however, should at the time 

 work with a will, and after washing, and scraping the animal as 

 dry as possible, not a moment should be lost in putting on the 

 clothes, and folding bandages around the limbs. Eeaction will 

 then speedily commence, and total dryness of the hair almost as 

 speedily follow. 



Again, from the want of vital power within the digestive 

 organs, arising, as previously stated, from the withdrawal of 

 such power for the supply of other structures, it will be 

 dangerous in the extreme to allow the animal to gorge his 

 stomach with food. Delicate feeders are not to be feared in 

 this respect ; it is rarely they will partake of anything, the 

 difficulty, in fact, is to induce that change within them, which 

 leads to the requiring of food ; but with horses which enter the 

 stable ravenously hungry, the greatest caution oq the part of 

 those in attendance is required. No danger is to be apprehended 

 from allowing the hunter a liberal portion of gruel, or from 

 the administration of raw eggs mixed with tepid water. 

 These are the proper kinds of food to allow, inasmuch 

 as they afford nutrition to the system, without the digestive 

 organs being previously called upon to digest it. The 

 stomach and digestive organs, upon such occasions, are not 

 only destitute of the power necessary to digest a liberal supply 

 of food, but from the circumstances in which they are placed, 

 these organs must of necessity remain so until their vital 

 energies are fully restored. 



In closing our observations regarding the dietetic manage- 

 ment of the hunter, I may observe, that the hay required for 

 his use should be two years old, free from dust, and from what 

 is called being " mow-burnt." It should, in fact, be of the 

 best quality which land can produce, or money purchase. 



