74 ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



appetite for it; but great care (liould be taken, 

 that To much be never allowf^d at once, that 

 he leave, and blow upon it. There lies the 

 iecret, even in fatting animals to profit ; a 

 thing not fo often done as fuppofed. At night 

 a confiderable quantity of hay is left in the 

 rack, abfolutely neceffaryj no doubt, to hard- 

 working horfes, whofe mofl leifure time for 

 feeding is the night ; of the propriety of the 

 meafure, for horfes kept in a date of luxury, I 

 have my doubts, 



*' Fafting Is nature's fcavenger." 



The ancients, according to Zenophon,fed their 

 horfes but twice a day ; the modern Turks, 

 Arabians, and Moors, feed only once with 

 corn, that is, barley ; or as fome affert, only 

 once in twenty-four hours, when they allow 

 three or four pounds of barley, feeding in the 

 interval v/ith firaw, but very little hay, which 

 in thofe countries is hard to be procured. 

 Camerarius, who really feems to have deferved 

 to ride a good horfe, from his liberal manner 

 of feeding, direfts fix double pugils, or hand- 

 fuls of oats, or barley, to be adminiftered three 

 times a day, the laft, or night-feed, to be fome- 

 what the largeit. This may be eftimated at 

 about a peck and half per day. His daily 

 routine of diet is the following. At firft going 

 to ftable in the morning, give a feed of corn, 



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