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iong-rooted clover, 39; white clover, 52; and lu- 

 c&rn, 23." 



Watering. 



Although few pay attention to this department 

 of the horse's stable-management, yet a little consider- 

 ation will prove of how much importance it is that the 

 horse should be supplied with such water as is most 

 palatable to him ; and that some water is more bene- 

 ficial than that obtained elsevN^here, may be learnt from 

 the fact that many jockeys and trainers will prefer 

 carrying the water their horses have been accustomed 

 to from course to course, rather than risk the chance 

 of rendering their animals unfit for the race by giving 

 them that which could be more readily procured in 

 the neighbourhood. Besides, horses have a particular 

 aversion to what is usually denominated hard water, 

 and have been known to turn away from such as has 

 appeared clear and good to the eye, and drank from a 

 pool or ditch where the water has been rather turbid 

 than otherwise. This last is usually soft water, while 

 that of wells and pumps is hard, and, moreover, has a 

 coldness not at all congenial to the horse's palate and 

 stomach : indeed the intense coolness of well water, in 

 the summer months especially, has been known to gripe 

 and sometimes injure the animal in other ways. When 

 in health, w^ater should be administered at least three 

 times a day to horses ; the neglect of this in the hot 

 weather has caused death ; from the quantity they 

 drink when hot and tired, the eagerness with which 

 they will go to the water in such cases, and the diffi- 

 culty to get them from it, clearly shows that they stood 

 m need of this necessary article some time before. 



When a horse has any distance to go, it is an ab- 



