CHAPTER X. 



SOME PRACTICAL POINTS IN FEEDING AND 

 WATERING. 



When a food mixture has been arranged, suitable in all 

 respects for the animals to which it is to be fed, there 

 are still some important matters to be considered. The 

 chief of these are — (1) the method of distribution of 

 the food, (2) the frequency and times of meals, (3) the 

 times at which water is to be given in relation to meals 

 and work, and (4) the arrangements for week-end 

 feeding. 



All these have to be carried out with a view to 

 ultimate economy. The important bearing of these 

 methods of feeding upon the incidence of disease of the 

 digestive apparatus is a point which must not be lost 

 sight of. It is no economy to dismiss the "horse- 

 feeder " if great loss is going to be caused by careless 

 feeding on the part of individual carters. Needless to 

 say, the above remarks do not apply to horses kept for 

 purposes other than profit earning. The whole subject 

 of feeding and watering in relation to work is such a 

 debatable one that methods practised by one owner 

 would be totally condemned by another in the same 

 town, and yet each may base his opinion on the apparent 

 success of his particular procedure. 



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