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hay feed to be diminished in quantity as you feed the cut : 

 this feed, of course, to be moderately wet, not slopped. 

 He is now in a condition to pass a comfortable night. 

 This is for summer work, of winter care and blanketing 

 we treat in another place. 



6th. Salt. A very common practice is to keep a piece 

 of rock-salt in his trough. This I do not like, for the rea- 

 son that the life of a gentleman's horse is a very monoto- 

 nous one ; he will lick more than is good for him, for lack 

 of something else to do, and necessarily create an un- 

 natural thirst, causing him to fill himself with water, and 

 if called on for a sharp ride or drive, is unfit for either, or 

 if forced to a good pace may sustain great injury from his 

 distended stomach. 



A small quantity of salt two or three times a week is a 

 very good thing: ground alum-salt, a tablespoonful each 

 time. It is always wrong to let a horse fill himself with 

 water before being driven. 



So much for the management of the horse in the stable. 



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