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keep it off training and let some one look after it that 

 does not attend to other healthy horses until satisfied 

 — through professional advice — that such is of a non- 

 communicable nature. Should it prove to be some 

 infectious disease such as influenza, strangles, etc., at 

 the close of the complaint, have the walls scrubbed (also 

 fittings, etc.), with hot water, soft soap and carbolic 

 acid, and lime whitened in addition, if needful. 



As regards bedding, oat straw is the best, though 

 peat moss litter is most extensively used by dealers, 

 cab proprietors, and at stud farms, etc. 



Make it a point to buy the best of English or Scotch 

 hay (no foreign if it can be avoided), and the best oats. 

 The last named, taken all round, form the best *' single" 

 food that a horse can have. For old horses they are 

 better bruised ; for young ones, " whole." 



The author, however, prefers a mixed food (oats, 

 linseed, maize, bruised beans and split peas, bran, with 

 chopped hay), and it will be found the most satis- 

 factory if given in the proportion of i part of oats, 

 i linseed, J bran, J of beans and peas, to three parts 

 of chopped hay. 



Always feed and water within reasonable time of 

 exercise, say, a couple of hours, and never feed imme- 



