THE MANAGEMENT 



AND 



TREATMENT OF THE HORSE. 



: ' Happy he who studies nature's laws, 

 Through effects can trace the certain cause."— Virgil. 



I THINK I cannot do better to begin this short 

 treatise than by pointing out some of the evils the 

 horse has to suffer in consequence of the ignorance 

 displayed by the architect who first draws the plan of 

 the stable. I will endeavour to show in a few simple 

 words the great faults in nearly every stable I have been 

 in for the last twenty years, some of which have been 

 the best in England. 



The first defect to be noticed is the floor. In the 

 first place the floor of the stable is always made high in 

 front of the horse's head, and slopes down low to his hind 

 feet. This, I contend, is unnatural, and therefore wrong. 

 The stable should always be made with the hind part at 

 least one inch higher than the fore part. Some people 

 may object to this on the ground that the water will all 

 run under the horse and cause a great waste of litter. 



