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a moderate drink and the usual two or three quarts of 

 oats, with a fair feed of sweet, good hay, and let him 

 eat and digest his dinner as best pleases him. 



After dinner the rubber will have the harness, boots, 

 sulky, etc., to attend to, and a good boy will take pains 

 to keep these always cleaned and in good shape, for 

 this is a very important factor in their preservation 

 and wear, as well as in their direct bearing on the 

 horse's work. After these details have been attended 

 to, the horse is given a walk and a little grass ; then 

 the box is cleaned out, the horse again rubbed off, his 

 feet attended to (to which I refer below), fresh bedding 

 put in and his regular clothes put on, and he is all 

 through with for the day, excepting his supper. 



"Writing here in California, where we never have any 

 trouble in keeping our horses warm enough in winter, 

 perhaps I have neglected, in discussing the conditions 

 sought in stabling, to refer to this phase of horse keep- 

 ino: that confronts breeders and trainers, in a region 

 where the winters are more rigorous. In speaking of 

 clothing, it may be touched upon. At all seasons of 

 the 3'ear our nights are cool in California, but they 

 are never cold. Hence, it is easier here to keep the 

 horse in a uniform temperature than in the l^orth and 

 East. I need not say that horses must be warm 

 enough, or they cannot be kept in good condition. 

 They will not, on the same amount of food, thrive if 

 cold. It is, I am sure, an indisputable fact that all 

 animals can be kept thrifty and strong on less food 

 in a comfortable temperature than in one where they 

 are chilled. I am not altogether sure that artificially 

 heated barns will, at all times, prove wholly satis- 



