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rience has taught them this ; they will leave crystalline 

 hard water, and resort to soft, however turbid it may be. 



Horses kept in the stable should be watered in summer 

 at least three times a day ; and if this salutary advice be 

 attended to, many of the diseases to which they are liable 

 will be prevented. Horses subjected to hard labour require a 

 great deal of drink to supply that moisture which is thrown 

 off by perspiration, and the poor animals but too frequently 

 suffer much from a want of due attention to this. Let any 

 one observe how eagerly a horse plunges his muzzle into a pail 

 of water, and with what difficulty he can be removed from 

 it while a drop remains, and he will be able to judge of the 

 thirst which he must have suffered. If they are allowed a 

 moderate quantity of water while warm, they must not be 

 permitted to stand still for some time afterwards, otherwise 

 very bad consequences may follow ; and nothing is so likely 

 irreparably to injure the wind of a horse, as to gallop him 

 immediately after drinking ; but a little, taken at intervals, 

 will not harm him. If horses are allowed to drink freely 

 when overheated, and remain quiet, violent spasms, inflam- 

 mation, and sudden death is likely to ensue. 



SECTION III.— TRAINING. 



Training should be commenced as soon as the colt is 

 taken from the mare, and, as before hinted at, he should be 

 placed under the care of a man of a mild and gentle dis- 

 position. Kind treatment and caresses are the only sure 

 methods to obtain obedience, attachment, and confidence in 

 man. This maxim should be applied to horses even of the 

 most stubborn temper, for assuredly if gentle measures will 

 not render them obedient, harsh treatment never will. In 

 short, most of the vices in horses may be traced to their 

 being early intrusted to the care of persons of brutal dis- 



