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to water more frequently, being, like ourselves or any 

 other animal, liable from some cause — some slight de- 

 rangement of the stomach, for instance — to be more 

 thirsty at one time than another ; and it is a well- 

 known fact that, where water is easily within reach, 

 these creatures never take such a quantity at a time as 

 to unfit them for moderate work at any moment. If 

 an arrangement for continual access to water be not 

 convenient, horses should be watered before every feed, 

 or at least thrice a-day, the first time being in the 

 morning, an hour before feeding (which hour will be 

 employed in grooming the beast) ; and it may be ob- 

 served that there is no greater aid to increasing their 

 disposition to put up flesh, than giving them as much 

 water as they like before and after every feed. 



A horse should never be watered when heated, or on 

 the eve of any extraordinary exertion. Animals that 

 are liable to colic or gripes, or are under the effect of 

 medicines, particularly such as act on the alimentary 

 canal, and predispose to those affections, should get 

 water with the chill off. 



Watering in Public Troughs, or places where every 

 brute that travels the road has access, must be strictly 

 avoided. Glanders, farcy, and other infectious diseases 

 may be easily contracted in this way. 



GRAZING. 



The advantage of grazing, as a change for the better 

 in any, and indeed in every, case where the horse may 

 be thrown out of sorts by accident or disease, becomes 

 very questionable, on account of the artificial state in 



