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for all horses' legs ; even a very few have a marked 

 effect on their well-being. 



If the horse stands in bandages fresh ones 

 should be put on and those he wore all night 

 should be with the night rugs airing. Opinions 

 differ about horses standing in bandages, and it 

 is a question I should not care to be authoritative 

 about. For many years my horses always stood 

 in bandages. Then for some reason which I do 

 not remember now I let them stand without. I 

 found them do quite as well without bandages as 

 with them and I never used bandages again ; 

 except of course after a day's hunting or when 

 necessary for veterinary treatment. 



The horses having been thoroughly dressed 

 should then be watered and have a little hay and 

 a feed of corn given them. By then it will be 

 one o'clock and dinner time. 



The evening stables I would have commence 

 an hour earlier — at any rate half an hour earlier 

 than that given by Major Fisher. Indeed in the 

 depth of winter even earlier than that. And for 

 this reason. It will be remembered that I 

 advocated horses being taken out in the after- 

 noon, and allowed to nibble a little grass. ^ I am 

 sure this has much to do with keeping horses in 

 health and if they are only out for a few minutes 

 — ten minutes or a quarter of an hour — they will 

 derive benefit from it. 



When they are brought in after this short 

 exercise they should be watered and fed with ha^^ 



^ See page 44. 



