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horse should be provided with an old head-collar, halter 

 shank and a pair of heavy blankets and stout surcingle. 

 During the entire course of the winter he should receive a 

 fair diet, from four to six quarts of oats and from twelve to 

 eighteen pounds of hay per day, and occasionally some green 

 fodder, i. <?., carrots and mangles. The bedding should be 

 warm and clean. Such treatment will prolong the useful- 

 ness of a horse, and although thirty or forty dollars could be 

 saved each twelve months on his board, an outlay of two or 

 more hundred dollars would have to be made at the end of 

 three or four years in the hazarous purchase of a new horse. 



