276 LUMBERMAN'S HORSE 



because he is not worked, so that the httle he gets goes 

 for fuel, and not to replace tissue lost by hibor ; and also 

 because his ancestry has worried through the same trials, 

 and he is their fittest survivor. But the lumberman's 

 horse comes of stabled stock — a very different creature — 

 and must be kept warm by artificial means, or extra food. 

 The Oriental horse partakes of this hotclimate quality 

 to a certain extent, and is fed much less than ours ; but, as 

 with men, I have been unable to gauge his relative pounds 

 of consumption to my satisfaction. In the country you 

 can get no reliable information, nor do they feed by meas- 

 ure or by rule ; in the cities and in the army they fall par- 

 tially into Frank ways, and feed more according to our 

 measure. 



