The Code of Health and Longevity

1 5 4 APPEND I X . reckoned more nouriftiing than oats. When they are put up to iight, thej are kept in fmall penns, and fed for three or four days withthe very heft barley. For drink they get -about a gill and a half of water per day,of as foft aquality as poflible, and with a little toafted bread put intoit to makeit ftill fofter. During the remainder of their ftay in the penns, they are fed on one-third wheat and two-thirds barley, which is a nourifhing diet, without being too coftive. They are fed twice a-day, early in the morning, and at eight at night. Before be­ ing fed thefecond time, the crop is examined, to fee that it is quite empty, and the food digefted. They ought not to have, before they areput into the penns, above three or four henswith them, andnone after. About four or five days before fightingthey are phy- licked. The beftmedicine is about halfa table-fpoonful of creamof tartar made up with butter into a pill. This they caneafily be made to take. The objeft isto give them only two or three loofe ftools, which lightens them, and makes their flelh afterwards firmer. The day they are phyficked they get nothing but a little warm water. Next morning they areput again ontheir hard feed, of one-third wheat and two-thirds barley, and inthe eveningof that day they geta hot meal, con- fifting ofwheat bread and milk, v/ith a little white fu- gar candy. More than onemeal ofthat fort wouldmake them heavyor lumpy. In the fummer feafon, after be­ ing phyficked,they getair the fecond day ; but in the winter they ought to be kept warm, without being at the fame timetoo hot. Brandy or any heating drug on the day of fighting does more harm than good. They may get, however, juft