The gentleman's, farmer's & travellers pocket companion : containing many valuable preventatives incident to horses, cattle and sheep : also, many receipts for the cure of the same when diseased / by Henry C. Hicks, of Dorchester County, Maryland.

  • Hicks, Henry C.
Date:
1811
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The gentleman's, farmer's & travellers pocket companion : containing many valuable preventatives incident to horses, cattle and sheep : also, many receipts for the cure of the same when diseased / by Henry C. Hicks, of Dorchester County, Maryland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    136/212
    wish to raise a fine large colt, but force from the start and so continue. But if you would wish to raise one for service, you must not force it for the two first years, but the third; then take up and feed for light handling. Here you must be cautious, least you should -founder, which likely may injure your colt when size and strength renders it fit for use. You must handle with care, such as rub- bing the limbs, haltering, and letting stand in the stable ; then learn him to stand tied to the rack ; then lead out and circle ; then learn him to stand bridled in the stable, and saddled ; then to lead bv the bridle and to circle'right and left; then let some active boy or small man back him, and gently learn him to walk fast, then to trot slow and fast, then to canter right foot foremost. When all this is done, and age will admit, then prepare him for seasoning, that is to say, not too fat nor too lean, too sweatty nor too dry. Attend to the bowels, and force him into exercise by degrees—and mind not to distress him, but feed, curry, and rub well the joints. If in warm weather bathr