EXERCISE. 137 



and never suddenly increased. Having now im- 

 proved and become strong, he should have a 

 canter during his morning's exercise three or four 

 times a week, and any green meat that he has 

 been feeding on changed to dry grass ; but three 

 weeks must be allowed before the change is 

 wholly completed. Increase one map of ground 

 grain every fortnight, and let the exercise be 

 proportioned to this gradual increase of grain, 

 and not the grain to the exercise : he is now 

 only being put in condition, so, if he gets thin, 

 decrease the exercise ; but do not increase the 

 grain too quickly. Some horses will get fat and 

 keep in condition on very little grain ; so much 

 the better. By the time his appetite and diges- 

 tion can contend with ten, eleven, twelve, or thir- 

 teen seers of ground grain per diem, (thirteen 

 seers of ground grain is about ten pounds,) accord- 

 ing as he may be a large or small horse, and a 

 large or small feeder, he ought to be in strong 

 healthy condition, externally and internally, which 

 is to be thus defined : when he is fine in coat, 

 and that fineness has been gained by the free 

 use of hand-rubbers and brushes, and not by 

 warm jhools, or hot stables ; when he is firm 

 in flesh, the flesh well up on the quarter, and 

 he carries a good carcase ; neither tucked up 

 under the flank, nor let down like a cow : when 



