EXERCISE. 77 



be at starting, will long continue to give the time and labour required 

 daily to groom horses, as they ought to be groomed, unless the master 

 is able to and does appreciate the result of their labour. 



Horse owners are cautioned against allowing the practice that prevails 

 amongst grooms of forcing off the old coat in the spring, when the pro- 

 cess of shedding commences. Nature will complete this process in her 

 own time, and any attempt to hasten it frequently results in leaving the 

 animal bare in patches, and rendering him more susceptible to chills and 

 colds. 



CHAPTER 7. 

 SHOEING. 



126. In a previous edition the author referred his readers to his 

 treatise, ' Notes on Shoeing/ published by Smith and Co., Waterloo 

 Place ; but in the present edition he has reprinted the substance of that 

 work at the end, Chapters 62, 63, and 64. 



The object of putting it at the end, instead of in this, its more proper 

 place, has been to avoid alterations of the numbers of paragraphs, which 

 under this arrangement are the same as in the previous editions. 



CHAPTER 8. 



EXEKCISE. 



127. Need of exercise. 128. Muscles. 129. Tendons. 130. Ligaments. 

 131. Lungs and oilier organs of respiration. 132. Gradual worlc. 133. 

 Regularity of work. 134. Stage-coach horses. 135. Neglect of exercise. 

 13(5. Age, &c., to be considered in regulating the amount of exercise. 137. 

 Good feeding necessary . 138. Amount of exercise needed 139. Grass-fed 

 colts. 140. Corn-fed colts. 141. Irish colts. 142. Horses from dealers' 

 stables. 143. Exercise of riding or harness horses. 143a. Exercise in wet 

 weather. 144. Exercise of hunters. 145. Summering of hunters. 146. 

 But ivill legs and feet stand continual work ? 1 47. Exercising ground in 

 summer. 148. Artificial exercising ground. 149. Temporary ride during 

 a frost. 150. Expense of keeping horses up through the summer. 151. Size 

 of stud required for hunting. 152. Kind of exercise most suitable for hun- 

 ters in summer. 153. Objections made to harness worJc. 154. Hunters in 



