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CHAPTEK V 



FEEDING OF HUNTEES 



There is no part of the stud groom's work which 



equals this in importance, and it is the thing of all 



others which you must trust to him. I always 



impress on mine that the stable is judged by its bad 



doers and not by its good. There are some horses 



(not always one's best) that any fool can get to 



look well. Gross feeders of an easy-going, and 



sometimes unenterprising, disposition, they will do 



well on anything. It is the nervous, delicate 



feeders, wanting special care and attention, which 



soon show the difference between a good and a bad 



groom. I remember one battery of Horse Artillery 



at Aldershot which had not one horse in the stables 



looking bad. Its horses were the ordinary animals 



supplied by the remount depot, getting the not 



excessive Government ration of 10 lbs. oats, 12 lbs. 



hay, 8 lbs. straw ; but it was commanded by a past 



master in the art of stable management. 



They say there is a key to every horse's mouth, 

 and I believe the same to be true of nearly every 



