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Night blindness. shoe
This is very common among horses and mules, due 6
sun glare. It can only be detected by testing the animal time
at night, and this is best done by walking animals over 0 r s<
obstacles. Eye fringes should be used to protect the eyes whei
from sun and flies. be f
Poisonous plants.
Jaur, probably the oleander, is found in the Kuh-i-
Malusan and near Baluch Ab and other places in the hills.
Poisoning from this plant is called “ Jauri ”. The
symptoms of oleander poisoning are drowsiness, vomiting,
and subsequently unconsciousness and death in eight hours
to two days.
Jak is a plant like “ padah ”, poplar willow, but its
leaves are smaller.
Treatment. —As for Colic. See Field Service Pocket
Book, Part II, India, 1928 page 244, and Animal Manage
ment.
Fodder.
Siah taghaz (disert tamarisk)— Taran Marung and
Taramira (Mandao) are camel fodders.
Taran is a plant that becomes green in the spring and
has no flowers, it remains more or less green all the winter.
Marung is said to be an evergreen plant with red
flowers that grows in the bed of the Sar-i-Shilaq.
Taramira is largely found north of Shusp. It is a
most useful fodder for camels, either green, or as “ bhoosa ”
made from the dry stalks. Meal made of the seeds, or
the cake left after expressing the oil, is also a good camel
food. It should be given in limited quantities (about 2
lbs. per day) and soaked in water for about 18 hours
before feeding.
Khasil (green wheat) is given to horses in the spring.
Unlimited quantities cause diarrhoea which the natives
regard as beneficial, but better effects are obtained from
a more gradual introduction of Khasil into the ration.
Wheat bhoosa is the main fodder at other times of
the year, and may always be used with advantage for horses
and camels in the same way as chaff. Owing to the mode
of preparation it contains much dirt and requires careful
screening before use.