150 ON THE STABLE. 



As the foregoing are the principal points to 

 be attended to in tlie structure of the stable, it 

 will be proper, in the next place, to enquire in- 

 to its ceconomy, under which head may be 

 included diet and cleaning. In the customary 

 mode of regulating the diet of the horse, there 

 are many evident improprieties; but previous 

 to an exposition of this subject, it will be neces- 

 sary to treat of his organs of digestion. 



Although he is a quadruped of the her- 

 biferous tribe, he does not chew the cud, as 

 such an operation would have been very incon- 

 venient to him in performing the offices for 

 which he was intended by nature. His sto- 

 mach, therefore, is smaller than that of the 

 ox. But to make up the deficiency in the 

 quantity received at one time, he is obliged to 

 eat more frequently ; and although his diges- 

 tion is not so perfect as it is in animals which 

 ruminate, yet it is much more rapid, so that 



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