2S HAY SEED, OR HOW TO 



you feed your other horses, and no water, and as soon as 

 he has eaten the grain muzzle him, groom him as usual, 

 and about eight o'clock give him a walk for half an hour. 

 By the time he has been walked the bran mash will have 

 performed its office, and he will be emptied out and 

 ready to prepare for the sweat. Take him into the sta- 

 ble, take a long, soft woolen blanket and double it to- 

 gether so it will be full length and half the width, throw 

 it over his back and bring the end under his belly; be 

 careful to have it straight and free from wrinkles — it 

 ought to lap a foot or more — fasten it with safety skew- 

 ers, or, what is better, four strings sewed onto the side of 

 the blanket a little below where it crosses the back bone, 

 and the same number on the end that you bring between 

 the fore and hind legs; then it can be fastened without 

 any danger of wounding the skin. Take a little lighter 

 blanket and double it in the same way, and fold it as 

 many times around the neck, enveloping it from the 

 shoulders to the ears ; now take another blanket, but 

 smaller, and cover the horse all over with it, tying it 

 under the tail and around the breast. A hood large 

 enough to cover the shoulders, without ear pieces. A 

 Kersey suit over this, buckled at the flank ; hood with 

 ear pieces, and his costume is complete. Let out your 

 harness to accommodate the extra amount of clothing, 

 and hitch him into the sulky. (Have a drink made for 

 him of oat meal and water, which make a little above 

 blood heat by adding hot water.) Walk him and jog a 

 couple of miles, when the perspiration will begin to start 

 some, and you can give him a drink of the .varm gruel, 

 a few swallows (two or three), which will facilitate the 

 flow. Then give him a couple of miles more jogging, 

 fast enough to start the moisture, and go to the stable, 

 unhitch him, but throw immediately onto him a couple 

 of extra blankets to retain all the heat. He will labor in 

 breathing, but give him another swallow of the warm 

 drink, when the perspiration will begin to run down his 

 legs and ooze through the blankets. Don't be alarmed 

 at the profuse flow ; you will see that he doesn't breathe 

 as hard as before, and the arteries will become more 



