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large a quantity you put down. The grass and 

 water, as a rule, should be very gradually re- 

 duced, a little every month ; and the grain as 

 gradually (at the rate of about a quarter of a 

 pound a week) increased; but the appetite for 

 all must be consulted to a certain extent. If 

 the digestion keeps pace with the appetite, and 

 there is no looseness, well and good ; do not 

 overstrain his stomach in order to see how much 

 he " really would take in ;"" if the appetite is 

 better than the digestion, there must be reduc- 

 tion. The following (supposing he was in good 

 condition when the training commenced) may 

 be considered a fair quantity for a full-sized 

 Arab, of fourteen hands two inches high, actually 

 to swallow in one day and night. 



