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down will go his coat, and moisture will 

 begin to appear. He is now cooling him- 

 self, by the process of evaporation, just as 

 he does with his winter coat in cold weather. 

 We have been considering the condition 

 of a horse just brought in after severe ex- 

 ercise. Shall he be closely stabled and 

 blanketed ? I have tried to show that this 

 is not good practice. Scarcely any one 

 would think of throwing him a mess of 

 grain immediately. Yet there is a phy- 

 siological reason for this, which it might 

 be well to consider. When a horse is 

 brought in hot and sweating, we have 

 shown that this condition is owing to the 

 rapid combustion of his tissue waste. He 

 has now all he wants to do until he cools 

 off by the evaporation of the wetting na- 



