30 HAY SEED, OR HOW TO 



CHAPTER VIII. 



TREATMENT AFTER THE SWEAT. 



Hitch up your horse the morning after his sweat and 

 jog him three or four miles slowly, but don't give him 

 any fast work until the day after. If you have not over- 

 done the sweating, your horse will act and step out as 

 light as a feather, and his eye will be clear and bright. 

 You can't fail to see if your horse ^on^ feel as well as 

 common. You will, the second day after the sweat, give 

 him some fast work, but not up to his limit of speed, as 

 this should never be done except in a trial, and I don't 

 think half mile trials amount to much, only to teach 

 the horse to quit after he has gone to the half mile pole. 

 In the early part of the horse's preparation a half mile 

 heat is well enough to gauge the speed he has, but I 

 would not persist in half mile trials. I will say a little 

 more about walking. In the early part of the horse's 

 training, walking exercise in the morning should be given 

 when the dew is on the grass, and walk him so he can 

 have the benefit of it on his legs and feet. A walk to- 

 wards evening of an hour, with the privilege of picking 

 grass, will be enjoyed by the animal and his appetite and 

 constitution benefited. In training horses a man must 

 get up in the morning, A horse in training ought to be 

 fed at five o'clock in the morning, after having a few swal- 

 lows of water, two quarts of oats, his bed shaken up and 

 stall cleaned of manure and wet straw. After you have 

 had your breakfast, clean his coat and feet and give him 

 a little walk in the dew, hitch him into the sulky and 

 give him his work, after which he can be fed two quarts 

 more oats and some hay, and watered. Now fix up his 

 bed and leave him to himself till three o'clock in the af- 



