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to get them to eat enough. It is seldom that animals of this kind are too 

 greedy. Their feeding is so regular and their care is so good, that they 

 are seldom inclined to overload their stomachs. If an animal be a glut- 

 ton he mu:st be restrained to such a quantity of food as will support the 

 labor he is to perform. No horse driven at fast, or to exhaustive work, 

 should be taken out in less than an hour and a half, or two hours after 

 finishing the meal ; and it is better for any horse if he have an hour of 

 rest after eating, before returning to work. 



rv. What to Peed. 



"What the feed of horses should be, has been partly stated in the pre- 

 ceding sections. It may be varied somewhat, according to the price of grain. 

 As a rule much cut feed is given to teaming horses, express and dray 

 horses, in cities, especially in large stables, where a methodical sys- 

 tem is followed, and intelligent foiemen have charge of the different 

 departments. If com is giveji as a substitute, in part, for oats, bran 

 should be used with it. Cut feed at night, with oats morning and noon, 

 makes excellent provender for any draft team, including those for farm 

 work. On anumber of farms where many horses are used, this is the rule, 

 and a most excellent one it is, during the season of hard labor. In winter, 

 more corn may be fed than oats ; and when corn-meal and bran are used, 

 a heaping measure of bran to a stricken measure of meal, is a good pro- 

 portion. 



The intelligent reader will be able to judge, from the suggestions here 

 given, how to regulate the messes. A horse, regularly and fully fed, will 

 seldom eat too much. Now and then it vn\\ be necessary to restrain a 

 greedy one. If a horse is given to bolting his grain whole, he should 

 have chopped food, or it must be so managed that he can only pick it up 

 little by little. It is the half -fed horse that founders himself when he 

 gets at the grain bin. 



V. Condiments. 



It is well to avoid horse condiments, condition powders, and nostrums 

 wan-anted to cure. On the farm they should not be needed ; and if the 

 animal is really ill, the proper treatment of the case T\all be found fur- 

 ther on, in the chapters devoted to diseases. In the cities and larger vil- 

 lages, the advice of a competent veterinary surgeon can now-a-days gener- 

 ally be procured. Ai'senic, strychnine and other violent drugs, especially 

 the first named, are much in vogue to give an animal fire and a sleek 

 coat, especially by ignorant persons who pretend to know all about horses. 

 They are ruinous unless used as prescribed by a competent veterinarian. 

 If a horse lacks appetite, rest and a few bran-mashes will generally rem- 

 edy the trouble. Condition powders are beneficial, if the system is out of 



