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elastic and the pulsations less rapic'. Have your scrapers 

 and rubbers ready, unbuckle the hood and outside blanket, 

 throw the hood across his loin and turn back the clothes so 

 as to expose his chest, throw the neck wrapper to one side 

 and scrape him out carefully. Have help enough to rub him 

 gently around the head and ears while you, after cover- 

 ing the neck and chest, scrape his back, sides and quar- 

 ters ; be careful not to irritate him. His neck will now 

 scrape again ; go all over him again, and then throw off 

 all the wet clothes ; rub him briskly, but gently, all over 

 with dry, clean rubbers, and get some dry, clean clothes 

 —-blanket and hood — and smooth his hair down the right 

 way, put on the blanket and hood and put a light blanket 

 over this, outside the tail, and have him walked for fif- 

 teen minutes, when you can finish doing him up by dry- 

 ing him up slowly, occasionally removing the clothes and 

 substituting lighter ones all the time. Wash his feet and 

 get the tubs and put his feet into them, and wash his legs 

 Irom the knees and hocks down with warm water. When 

 this is done, dip the bandages in hot water and do up his 

 legs from the knee and hock to the coronet. Fix up his 

 bedding, give him two quarts of drink previously prepared 

 by putting a tablespoonful of pure cream tartar into ten 

 quarts of water, which is all he ought to have until the 

 next morning. Pour out about two quarts of the asced- 

 ulated drink at a time, so not to tantalize him by showing 

 him more water than you want him to drink at one time. 

 Give him two quarts of oats and three or four pounds of 

 hay, and when he has eaten it, muzzle him, and leave 

 him undisturbed till the next feed. The object of re- 

 stricting him in the amount of water, is that the absorb- 

 ents will take hold of the fat, which they would not do if 

 you give him an unlimited supply of fluids. A good 

 clear warm day should always be taken advantage of to 

 give a horse a sweat, and you should be careful not to 

 get into a draft of air in the cooling out process. His 

 next feed will be his regular evening meal of oats and 

 hay, which ought to be curtailed about one-third in 

 amount, but the morning following feed him as usual, 

 and give water likewise. 



