98 STABLE MANAGEMENT. 



at Meerut, and can be obtained almost anywhere. If 

 this is not used, the " syces " can always make up 

 dubbing of their own, called " momrogan." Some 

 people give their head '' syce " a monthly allow- 

 ance to provide dubbing, soap, bathbrick, oil, etc. ; 

 but as they frequently put lime and bleaching 

 materials with it, I prefer to buy it myself, and let 

 them get the other articles. They require a chamoise 

 leather and a burnisher for steel-work, but one of 

 each will do for a stable of half a dozen horses, 

 and very good country-made leathers (sabur) can 

 be got for from one to one and a half rupees. The 

 soap is put on to and rubbed into leather- work 

 with the hands ; but the great fault they have is 

 that they will put on too much, and won't work 

 it in enough, and one's breeches and hands will 

 get into a great mess. 



Saddle Covers (huJc bund). 



A sheet, made out of a description of coarse country 

 cloth (karwah), is necessary for each saddle or set 

 of harness, to wTap it up in, and keep the dust and 

 dirt off. It should be sufficiently large to wrap the 

 saddle up in completely, and in the summer the 

 " syce " can bring it with him to act as a horse- 

 cloth to throw over the quarters when standing about. 



