Notes on South African Hunting. ii 
Salted Horses—Tulp Poisoning 
the sun is well up, and bring them in about an 
hour before sundown, and never to let them 
feed on low ground. About the best work on 
this subject is a pamphlet by Mr. Rutherfoord, 
the veterinary surgeon of the 6th Inniskilling 
Dragoons. 
Horses also die from eating various poison¬ 
ous plants and grasses, such as tulp and 
others. No rules can be laid down to avoid 
these evils ; but they are comparatively scarce. 
Of course the usual precautions against 
colic, etc., must be taken ; and it is well to 
take a few horse blankets for the cold nights. 
A good shooting horse is hard to get. The 
height of excellence is that the horse be sound, 
clever, fairly fast, a good stayer, and steady 
under fire. If, when one jumps off to shoot at 
the game he has been hunting, his horse pulls 
back just at the moment of firing, it is 
invariably irritating, and sometimes dangerous. 
Or if the horse is a hard puller, it naturally 
causes unsteadiness in the support of the left 
hand to the rifle. I have known ;^ioo or £150 
given for a good salted shooting horse—-and 
for a bad one too, sometimes. 
