8 HAY SEED, OR HOW TO 



feeder, and again some horses will not eat any more than 

 they need if they have it by them all day. Colts, like 

 boys, ordinarily have good appetites, and want enough to 

 keep them growing. 



Give the horse all the water he wants at night, unless 

 he has a race or trial on hand for the morrow, when it 

 would not be advisable. In the morning a horse, if he is 

 in good health and is accustomed to have what water he 

 wants at night after he has finished his hay, will not ex- 

 hibit much thirst, unless he is a glutton and has gorged 

 himself with his bedding, which habit ought to be cur- 

 tailed at once, for no horse can be gotten into condition 

 or kept so, if he eats all the litter he can reach. In short, 

 water should not be given a horse in quantity when it is 

 going to interfere with the performance of his daily work. 

 Give him a couple of swallows in the morning before he 

 eats his feed. Never give him over one-half a bucket at 

 once except at night, when he may have a reasonable 

 .llov^^ance. Rain, river and spring water are the kinds 

 ordinarily in use for horses in training, well water being 

 too cold, drawn directly from the well, to give horses 

 with safety. A sudden change of localities, as a cam- 

 paign necessitates, sometimes compels a change of water 

 from hard to soft, or vice versa, and is attended alwavs 

 with some danger of relaxation of the bowels, but by add- 

 ing a small handful of linseed meal to a bucket of water 

 and gradually decreasing the quantity, the use of it can 

 be discontinued in two or three days, and your horse 

 wdll have become accustomed to the water. Water is 

 better to stand in the sun and air long enough to ap- 

 proach the temperature of the atmosphere before using 

 it if it is well or cistern water. If a horse is a light and 

 delicate feeder, the more water you can get him to drink 

 the more he will consume of feed. Dainty feeders are 

 nearly always light drinkers. The use of water for such 

 horses with just enough cream tartar in it to assidulate 

 it slightly has been found beneficial. If a horse is in- 

 clined to drink too much put only as much in the bucket 

 as you want him to drink at one time. Other horses 



