22 HORSE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA 



the feet, when required. Each shoe should be provided 

 with a leather thong to close the mouth round the leg. 

 Mashed turnips or carrots form an excellent poultice. 



Oat-bruising Machine. — Machines which are provided 

 with circular rollers should be employed for oats. Those 

 made by Turner, of Ipswich, are excellent. A small one, 

 with packing case, which also answers for a stand, will 

 cost about Es. 80 in India. 



Articles used in Grooming. — Each horse should be 

 provided with a brush and curry-comb, a hoof-picker, 

 mane-comb, three or four cotton rubbers, and a couple of 

 wisps made of unprepared hemp. One paii' of scrapers 

 will be enough for a small stable. 



English hody-hrushes should be used in preference to 

 those of country make. The bristles should be closely 

 set, long, and moderately soft, so as not to hurt the skin 

 while cleansing it from scurf. Each rib of a curry-comh 

 should be made of wrought iron, and should be riveted 

 at each end to the iron back. The teeth should be blunt, 

 so that they may not unduly wear out the bristles of the 

 brush. An inferior kind has the ribs made in pairs from 

 pieces of sheet iron turned up at the sides. These ribs 

 quickly lose their shape, and, owing to the thinness of the 

 metal, their teeth are much too sharp. Long, thin, copper 

 sweat-scrapers, made with handles at each end, are much 

 to be preferred to those of a semicircular form, con- 

 structed with only one handle, as the latter are hard and 

 unyielding to the skin. 



Capital wisijs may be made from unprepared hemp 

 (Hind, sun). 



