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will rapidly help to cover them. Ghee is often 

 very old and rancid; so, if disrelished, try it 

 without the ghee, or with nice fresh butter. 

 Sugar-cane, sliced, is also most nutritious and 

 wholesome ; but too many things are as bad 

 as too few ; you must select those that best 

 suit his taste. Chaff will sometimes be found 

 very useful. A pound of dry grass, a pound 

 of barley or wheat-straw, boosa, and four pounds 

 of lucern, chopped up small, and given after 

 each feed ; or his feed of boiled grain, bran 

 mash, sliced carrots, &c., may all be mixed in 

 the trough with half the quantity of this chaff; 

 and the other half given afterwards. 



After a horse has picked up in flesh, and is 

 capable of being ridden for mornings' and even- 

 ings' exercise, he must not be allowed to get 

 gross. A horse, after four years old, should 

 never be too fat, any more than he should 

 be too thin. Feeding also too much or too 

 long on boiled food, chaff, sugar, &c., is bad ; 

 it must always be discontinued as improvement 

 takes place, for it makes the flesh too soft, 

 and may possibly have something to do with 

 engendering worms ; and the same benefit will 

 not be derived from it as if given only during 

 the times of thinness or sickness. 



A horse that has been long thin and out of 



