146 THE HORSE BOOK. 



between meals. This is high feeding properly 

 so called. Any one who wishes to take his 

 chances of colic, founder, inflammation of the 

 bowels and the like with it may do so. The 

 stomach and intestines of horses so fed are so 

 soft that you can stick your fingers through 

 them anywhere and not half try. Any one who 

 wants to build a horse up for show in this way 

 may do it. 



The prudent showman maps out his plan of 

 campaign, studies out his best routes, hires his 

 car for the show season and ships out in time 

 so that he will arrive at his destination a couple 

 of days before the show opens. It is best to 

 rent a palace car for a stated number of weeks 

 or months. If it is not desired to go to this 

 expense though it always pays then a box car 

 (or more) must be fitted with stalls made of 

 strong lumber, just as they might be built in a 

 barn. Three horses may often be put in one 

 end of the car, but if mature stallions are being 

 taken along two will be enough, which means 

 that one partition must be built, and it is hardly 

 needful to say that it should be built so that 

 nothing short 'of an ax will knock it down. 

 Horses will only ride well in a box car either 

 head to or tail to the motion. Arrangements 

 having been made with the railway officials for 

 the use of the same car during the entire season 

 the lumber used may be knocked away and 

 saved when the return journey is made and the 



