Part I. FerfeSl Farrier. 1 69 



The Third Fortnight's Feeding; 



The Third Fortnight you fhall make his Bread 

 finer than it was formerly ^ as thus : 



The Second Bread. 



Take two Pecks of clean Beans, and two Pecks 

 of fine Wheat, and grind them well together ^ then 

 bolt and knead it up with Barm or Lightning, and 

 make it up as you did the former Bread. 



With this Bread, having the Cruft clean cut 

 away, and Oats and fplit Beans mix'd together, or 

 feverally if you think fit, feed your Horfe at his 

 ufual Meals, as formerly, only with thefe few di& 

 ferences. 



Firft, you fhall not give the Heat which falleth 

 upon the Day of the Week the Match is to be run 

 upon, fo fmartly and violently as before, that he be 

 not overftrained and made fore before the Match. 

 Next you fhall not after his Heats give him any 

 Scourings •, hut inftead thereof inftantly upon the 

 end of his Heat, after he is a little cooled and 

 cloathed up, and in the fame place where you rub 

 him give him one of the following Balls as big as 

 a Hen's Egg. 



The true Receipt for Mr. Markham'i famous Cordial 

 Balls, fo much efieemed by the Generality of our, 

 Englifh Farriers. 



Take Annifeeds, Cummin- feeds, Fenugreek- 

 feeds, Carthamus-feeds , Elecampane- roots, and 

 Coltsfoot, of each two Ounces, beaten and fear- 

 ced very fine, as alfo two Ounces of the Flower of 

 Brimftone. Then take an Ounce of the Juice of 

 Liquorifh, and difTolve it on the Fire in half 3 Pint 



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