PRACTICAL HINTS ON STABLE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA. 239 
I am perfectly certain that I can formulate a scheme which 
would meet with the support of all the colleges, and at the 
same time effect the reformation I have referred to; but at 
the same time I am quite whiling as an individual to allow 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to 
take the initiative, stipulating, however, that the conditions 
of the agreement be drawn out in detail, nothing implied 
which is not stated, and the whole, subject to revisal and 
adjustment by the colleges. 
Trusting that this may meet your wishes, and the appro¬ 
bation of the Council, I remain, 
Yours very truly, 
James McCall. 
PRACTICAL HINTS ON STABLE MANAGEMENT 
IN INDIA. 
A Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of a Lecture written 
by J. B. W. Skoulding, Veterinary Surgeon First 
Class, Royal Horse Artillery, the prototype having 
been written and delivered by him when in charge of 
B. F. R. H. A. at Campbellpore, in November, 1875. 
Meerut, 1878. 
[Continued from p. 176.) 
c. Forage. —Having housed our horses satisfactorily in each 
of the foreshown particulars, the forage for them claims our 
attention, and we are called upon to decide on which kind of 
food horses will thrive and perform the w T ork they are required 
to do best, i. e. with most ease to themselves, and with the 
greatest satisfaction to their owners or to those who use them. 
In England, experience shows that sound good oats, with a 
modicum of old beans and a fair supply of sweet upland hay, by 
common consent take the precedence, with a few exceptions, of 
all other foods; but, unfortunately, out here oats are very 
inferior and too scarce for general use, while beans and old hay 
are unprocurable. 
The substitute for the oats, the beans, and the upland hay, 
with which we must perforce content ourselves, being gram or 
barley with bran. In a few districts Indian corn may be pro¬ 
cured, though, unfortunately for horses generally, this grain is 
but little used as fodder by their owners. 
Khooltee, a species of food with which I am acquainted, is also 
consumed in some parts of India, and moot, a small grain that 
boils into a mucilaginous mass, is given by the natives to pro- 
