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3. Worms of the most dangerous and pertinacious 

 description are picked up nowhere but at grass. 



4. Many ailments are contracted from exposure and 

 hardship or bad feeding ; and owing to the animal 

 being removed from under immediate inspection, such 

 ailments gain ground before they are observed. More- 

 over, at grass the horse is more exposed to contagious 

 and epidemic diseases. 



5. Horses suffer great annoyance from flies in sum- 

 mer time, not having long tails like horned cattle to 

 reach every part of their body ; and wherever any 

 superficial sore may be present, the flies are sure to find 

 it out. 



As to aged animals, it is sheer cruelty (practised by 

 some masters with the best intentions and worst pos- 

 sible results) to turn them out to grass. Such creatures 

 have probably been accustomed in the earlier part of 

 their lives to warm stables, their food put under their 

 noses, good grooming, and proper care. You might 

 just as well turn out a gentleman in his old age among 

 a tribe of friendly savages, unclad and unsheltered, to 

 exist upon whatever roots and fruits he could pick 

 up, as expose a highly-bred and delicately-nurtured 

 old horse to the vicissitudes and hardships of a life at 

 grass. 



TRAINING. 



rarey's system. 



The principle of this system is that of overpowering 

 the horse that may in some instances have even become 

 dangerous and useless, from having learned the secret 



