76 SHOEING. 



If your horse will not eat bran mash, which is 

 most probably your own fault, do not give laxative 

 alteratives.* 



GENERAL ALTERATIVES. 



Three drachms of black sulphuret of antimony, 

 three drachms of sulphur, two drachms of nitre, aud 

 half a drachm of ginger, made into a ball with honey 

 or ghoor, and given every night for a week or ten 

 days, the horse eating partly-boiled food, and receiving 

 only gentle exercise, is the best alterative for improv- 

 ing appearance when no particular complaint exists. 

 It is also good for preventing plethora. 



SHOEING. 



VARIOUS kinds of shoes and nails cannot be con- 

 structed in India : there are neither proper forges, 

 nor proper persons to superintend them. The pattern 

 here given is easily made, and will be found to an- 

 swer well for either a Racer, Charger, or a Hunter, 

 and be less productive of injury than a broader web 

 at the toes, which, being never sufficiently beveled 

 out, is consequently apt to press on the sole, besides 

 being more liable to pick up stones. There is no oc- 

 casion to discard it when it becomes old and thin at 



* A one-pound' ^powder- canister once full, piled up, is about equal to a 

 miip, or kutcha seer ; but whenever a map or seer of ground gram is men- 

 tioned, it does not mean^a kutcha seer of whole grain taken and ground, 

 that would l)e upwards of a kutcha seer and a quarter ; for eight maps, 

 seers or powder-canisters full of unground gram, will make eleven when 

 ground A pooly of grass is about two pounds, 



