78 TAMING HORSES. 



able to perform a journey or any other fatigue : 

 give him, in the morning, twelve ears of corn, 

 soaked twenty four hours in clean water. Scatter 

 half a spoonful of fine salt over it ; then let him 

 eat hay or fodder for one hour. At noon, give him 

 eight ears more, and a little fodder. Let him 

 stand till five o'clock, if the weather is warm, and 

 then bathe him : feed him as in the morning, and 

 give him hay, grass or fodder, not quite so much 

 as he would eat, The second day, bleed him by 

 one or two slight incisions in the mouth, and give 

 him sixteen ears of corn in the morning, and what 

 grass or fodder he will eat in half an hour, and no 

 more than four ears of corn at noon. Feed him in 

 the evening as in the morning, after having bathed 

 him as before, and augment the quantity of fodder. 

 If the weather is cool, curry him and rub him well, 

 instead of bathing. Third day, give him as much 

 corn as he will eat, and fodder at discretion all 

 night. Feed him as above, at seven or eight 

 o'clock in the morning, and give him no hay or 

 fodder, and nothing at noon: continue in this 

 manner, observing to scatter a little salt upon his 

 corn every third day. It will be necessary, after 

 the third or fourth day, to ride him a mile or two 

 twice a day. A horse managed in this manner, 

 will be &tter at the end of ten or twelve days, than 

 one fed in the common way will be in a month. 



