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tious j)art of its food, namely, the corn. The advantage 

 to be derived from this mode of summering a horse 

 is that it is always walking about, and its legs there- 

 fore are kept in good order, and also that it costs the 

 least of any plan. 



A third plan is to keep the horse in a box with 

 a yard to it during the summer, and feed it with 

 grass or other green food, and also with corn, but to 

 give it no exercise at all. 



This is also a bad plan if it is continued through 

 the summer. The horse gets full of humours, and 

 from want of use its legs get soft and will not stand 

 the work required of them so well. If, however, it 

 is only continued for a short time after the season is 

 over, during the first part of the summer, it is not 

 objectionable. 



The fourth plan, and the one which I should ]^re- 

 f er to any of the others, is to turn the horse out in a 

 field with a box to run into, and give him a quartern 

 of corn twice or three times a day. The pasture 

 should not be too rich, or the horse will get too fat ; 

 and the horse should not be turned out at a time, or 

 in a place, where he will be annoyed with flies. Or 

 the horse may be kept in a box and supplied with cut 

 grass and corn, and turned out some hours every 

 day. By this means he will keep in nearly as good 

 condition as if he were w^orked, and will derive all 

 the advantage conferred by rest. 



It is generally the custom to give horses physic 



