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Sbowing Horse Eating: from a Higb Rack or Manger, an Unnatural 



Position. 



Question. What do you think of horses eating from high mangers ? 



Answer. It is the practice of almost every horse owner to compel 

 his horse to eat from high racks or mangers. This is something that 

 I do not approve of, as it is unnatural for a horse to reach up after 

 his food. In the first place, all the chaff, hayseed, dirt, etc., are 

 liable to get into his eyes and ears, and many times when horses are 

 fed their grain they eat it so fast that they do not masticate it prop- 

 erly, and the result is that their digestive prgans have to perform 

 what their teeth ought to do. 



Take and turn your horse out into a field, or say on the side of a 

 hill, and you will never see him feeding up the hill ; he will always 

 feed sideways of the hill or down the hill. I claim that many horses 

 are made sprung knee, stiff necked, many times come out of the stable 

 acting as though they were foundered, caused from the continual 

 strain of standing and reaching up for feed, which is positively un- 



