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advantage have two feeds left in the mangers 

 which they will entirely finish before morning. 

 So long as sufficient food is taken in the twenty- 

 four hours, it does not always do to consider too 

 curiously when it was eaten. Though it may not 

 be the way one would have chosen, it is better to 

 coax an animal to eat its food somehow than go 

 without it. 



Suitable hours for feeding and exercise, for 

 hunters, are as follows, when horses are exercised 

 in the early morning : — 



5.30. a.m. A few mouthfuls of water (if it is 



not always present). 

 Half the feed of oats. 

 As soon as the corn is finished, 

 exercise follows. 

 8 a.m. On return give as much warmed 



water as the horses will drink. 



Then the rest of the feed of oats 

 and 

 Hay. 

 11 to 12 o'clock ac- Feed of oats, 

 cording to the time the 

 horses were fed after 

 exercise. 

 4 o'clock. Water. 



4 to 6 o'clock. Oats 



Then hay. 



Horses that are not exercised till late in the 

 day will have their full feed of oats the first 

 thing instead of dividing it. 



Horses going to hunt will have no hay in the 

 morning, but instead have another double hand- 

 ful of oats at 8 a.m. 



Delicate feeders have a double quantity of oats 

 at 6 p.m. ; or get an additional feed at 8 p.m. 



Horses vary considerably in the amount they 



