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and give about a handful at a feed, morning and noon, and about 

 twice that quantity at night. From twelve to sixteen quarts of 

 oats shonld be given in a day. Give one gallon of water in the 

 morning, the same at noon; at night give two gallons of water 

 and a peck of oats, with treble the quantity of hay. The horse 

 should not be exercised on a full stomach. Grain lying undi- 

 gested in the stomach generates a gas by fermentation, and indi- 

 gestion is the result. 



WEIGHTS TO BE CARRIED IN TROTTING. 



Every trotting horse starting for a match purse or stake shall 

 carry one hundred and fifty-six pounds. If in harness, the 

 weight of the sulky and harness is not to be considered. Pacing 

 horses are liable to the same rule. It will be interesting to note 

 that, in the regular progressive movements of the horse when 

 trotting, the diagonal limbs act nearly simultaneously, and that 

 the body is entirely without support for varying intervals of time 

 and distance. Until the recent investigation of animal locomo- 

 tion by Mr. Mybridge, many experienced horsemen were of 

 opinion that during the action of the trot one foot of the horse 

 was always on the ground. Mr. Mybridge, after more than 

 twenty years' study of the subject of animal locomotion, is the 

 recognized authority on this subject, both in America and 

 Europe. Pie received contributions amounting to seventy thou- 

 sand dollars to assist him in his work. lie produced photographs 

 of the movements of the horse, taken by an automatic electro- 

 photographic apparatus called the zoopraxiscope, invented by 

 himself. The exposures were in some instances less than one 

 five-thousandth part of a second. In trotting at n high rate of 

 speed the fore foot usually precedes its diagounl hind foot in 

 being lifted from and jilaced upon tlie ground, and the body will 

 be entirely without support for about one-half the total length 

 of the stride. Beginning the notation with the landing of the 

 right fore foot, the order of the supporting feet will be, first, the 

 right fore foot; second, the left hind and right fore feet; third, 



