BREEDING THE TROTTER 



ventilator in the center of the ceiling to regulate 

 the temperature and two windows on each side 

 of the stall which may be let down from the top. 

 In one corner of the stall, with a heavy bar around 

 it, place a large- heavy stove, which will burn hard 

 wood or soft coal. The floor on which the stove 

 sits and the walls about it should be covered with 

 zinc. 



When a horse is taken with pneumonia start the 

 sweat-box fire and run the temperature of the 

 room up to one hundred and twenty degrees or 

 one hundred and thirty degrees, or even one hun- 

 dred and forty degrees. Lead the horse in and 

 tie it up. Have an attendant to care for the horse 

 and keep the fire going. The average man will 

 not be able to remain with the horse all the time 

 it is in the sweat-box, and it will usually be neces- 

 sary to have two attendants, who will relieve each 

 other every fifteen minutes or half an hour. 



Give the horse all the cold water it will drink. 

 In the course of half an hour the horse will com- 

 mence to sweat. Wait till the sweat begins to 

 run down his legs and drop on the floor and then 

 scrape the horse as you would a trotter that has 

 just finished a stiff mile on a warm summer's day. 

 After this, open the ventilator so that the warm 

 air will escape gradually. Let the fire die down. 

 The attendants should rub the horse down and 

 do him up as they would a race-horse. This treat- 

 ment will take from two and one-half to three 

 hours, when the temperature of the room should 

 be down to about fifty-five degrees or sixty degrees. 



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