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even should he be able to digest all you give, this 

 raising of the condition too quickly is very apt 

 to produce fever, or inflammation of the bowels. 

 It is always dangerous to allow an idle horse 

 to overfeed on grain, it brings on scouring ; be- 

 sides, flesh gained at this risk adds but little to 

 strength. There are some horses also that will 

 keep plump on eight seers, and yet not thrive on 

 twelve. 



Continual increasing and decreasing of grain 

 is likewise very bad. Feeding a thin horse on 

 ten seers a-day, then reducing it suddenly to 

 half the quantity, and then increasing it again to 

 ten — all this irregularity is destructive to get- 

 ting into condition ; yet I have seen a man, when 

 training, act not very differently from this, but 

 I never heard of one winning, unless it was a 

 donkey race. 



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Mixed boiled food is often absolutely necessary 

 to recover lost flesh ; and, when given only once 

 a day, the evening is the proper time. One 

 map of coltee, one of oorud, one of barley, one 

 of bran, half a one of linseed-meal, with three 

 drachms of salt, or six ounces of ghoor, accord- 

 ing to the horse's taste, all put into hot water, 



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