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fit, itis watery and scanty, the horse will scarcely scrape, and dries with- 
out the slightest trouble. This is a good sign of condition, and the neces- 
sity for a repetition or the sweat may generally be gathered by the 
appearance of the fluid, which, when thick and lathery, shows that there 
is much gross fat in the system requiring removal; but, nevertheless, it 
also shows that great care must be taken in the process, lest mischief 
should be done, by calling upon nature too rapidly while the animal is in 
this fat state, and lable to inflammations of all kinds. After rubbing 
all the coat dry, and smoothing it down with the leather rubber, the usual 
clothing should be put on, and the horse allowed his exercise, which 
he may have as usual, care being taken that he does not catch cold if the 
weather is severe. The reason why the horse is taken out again is, that if 
he were left in the warm stable he would break out into a second sweat, 
and if he were placed in a cool one he would surely take cold. Walking 
exercise, therefore, with a short canter, is adopted as a means of avoiding 
both of these injurious conditions ; but he should not continue it longer 
than to put him into.a cool state, and restore his nerves and blood-vessels 
to their usual condition. The length of ground and pace for sweating 
vary with the age, condition, and purpose for which the horse is trained, 
the maximum length being six miles, and the minimum two to three, with 
a speed varying with every individual case, and depending upon the age, 
breed, and action of the horse, as well as his constitution and legs, and 
the state of preparation in which he is. Sweats are given at periods 
varying from once a week to once a fortnight after the first preparation, 
but seldom so often during that time. When sweats are given without 
clothing, they are in other respects just the same as described above, and 
the strappers are required in a similar way to dry the horse at once ; but the 
quantity of sweat is not nearly so great, and two good hands will generally 
suffice for the purpose. In almost all cases, even where clothing is not 
used, it is heaped on when the horse is taken into the stable, in order to 
encourage the flow of perspiration. (For “Sweaters,” see page 217.) 
THE TURKISH BATH. 
Tue TurKISH BATH when employed for horses, requires two boxes to be 
prepared, contiguous to each other, and, if economy is an object, to the 
saddle-room also, in order that one fire shall serve for all. The annexed 
plan has been carried out on this principle, the fire-place A being 
placed in the saddle-room, and heating it, as well as a boiler for hot water. 
It is sunk eighteen inches beneath the floor of the saddle-room, so as to 
allow of the commencement of the flue at B entering the bath-room, with 
its bottom two feet from the floor of that apartment, and to pass beneath 
the final exit of the flue, as it leaves to enter the chimney at F. The 
flue is supported on arches, clear of the wall, from B to C rising two 
inches in the foot, so that when it reaches the corner C, its bottom is four 
teet from the ground. It is built exactly like the usual flue of a hot- 
house, with dampers, and all the arrangements peculiar to that apparatus. 
Krom C to D it may be either on arches, or supported on slate built into 
the wall, as the heat is from this point not sufficient to crack that 
material. At D the bottom is about six feet high, and when it reaches the 
entrance B, it will give plenty of head room for a horse to pass beneath. 
On this side it is built in the wall, but still on arches so as to expose as 
large a radiating surface as possible, and serves to heat the other box H 
to the temperature required to prepare the horse for his sweat. I'inally, 
