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EXERCISE. 



When a horse is in health he may be frequently watered, 

 taking care to allow but a small portion at a time. When 

 water is drunk immoderately, it reduces the system to a con- 

 dition which renders him an easy prey to the attacks of 

 severe disease, by despoiling the structures of their elasticity 

 and vigor. A horse that is about to perform a journey should 

 be restrained from taking too much fluid. It is a bad arrange- 

 ment to water a horse just before feeding, yet this is to a 

 great extent a general practice. 



If the animal has just arrived from a journey, or has 

 worked hard, about two quarts may be given ; yet if he is 

 in a state of perspiration, he should be rubbed dry before 

 partaking of any fluid. Water should always be given to a 

 horse from a bucket, (we mean working horses,) and they 

 never should have more than half a bucket at a time ; two 

 or three buckets a day would be sufficient for any horse. 



Walking exercise is useful after watering, but trotting or 

 galloping is dangerous. Should a horse get loose during the 

 night, and overload the stomach Avith corn, then a drink of 

 water would be equivalent to a sentence of death. The only 

 proper course would be, to keep the animal quiet, arouse the 

 stomach and digestive organs to action by a cordial and car- 

 minative drink ; use injections ; after the danger is over, and 

 not till then, should the horse be permitted to drink. 



EXERCISE. 



This is an essential part of stable management, and like 

 food, it tends towards the health and strength of the animal. 

 Daily exercise is necessary to all horses, unless they are sick ; 

 it assists and promotes a free circulation of the blood, deter- 

 mines morbific matter to the surface, develops the muscular 

 structure, creates an appetite, improves the wind, and finally 

 invigorates the whole system. We cannot expect much of 

 a horse that lias not been habituated to a sufficient daily 



