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as its appetite craves, and no more than is needful. Give a heaping 

 tablespoonful of clean wood-ashes twice a week in the meal ration, 

 and the same quantity of sulphur two or three times per month, as 

 all these are conducive to health, and serve to ward off disease. 



PASTURE. 



If the horse is not employed at extra fast or hard work, it is 

 best to pasture it when convenient through the growing weather, 

 unless flies and mosquitoes are quite annoying ; then it should be 

 stabled during the day and turned out during the night. If the 

 grass is abundant and of a good quality, the horse will eat enough 

 during this time to support it well, with the addition of hay and a 

 few quarts of meal at noon in the stable, which ought to be moder- 

 ately darkened to keep out the flies. See that the horse has access 

 to plenty of pure water in the pasture. 



THE TEETH. 



Examine the horse's back teeth occasionally, and see that 

 none have grown up longer than others. If so, the horse can- 

 not masticate its food properly, and they must be filed down to a 

 level with the rest. Files are made expressly for this purpose. Also 

 look for decayed teeth, and if found extract them. If lampas is 

 formed, feed a little hard corn, and the mastication of it will soon 

 wear this off. The corn may at first give some soreness to the 

 gums ; if so, stop it a few days until relieved, and then feed again. 

 This is considered much better than lancing, and nothing like so 

 barbarous and painful to the horse as burning with a red-hot iron, 

 as is sometimes done. Lampas is merely a congested condition, 

 not a disease.. 



Rn)ING AND DRIVING. 



When the horse is taken out for either riding or driving, it 

 should not be allowed to move at a fast pace for the first mile or 

 more, otherwise, as its stomach is then full, it may injure its wind 

 and bring on the heaves. A good rule to observe before putting the 

 horse up to a fast gait is to let it dung three times. This relieves 

 the bowels to a moderate extent. If necessary to stop when out, 

 and a cold wind prevails, put the horse under cover and blanket ; if 

 one is not to be had then hitch on the lee side of some building. K 

 in summer, put in a shade as clear from flies and mosquitoes as pos- 

 sible ; if there is no net cover with a cotton sheet or light blanket. 

 The be^jt strap for hitching is one that buckles round the neck, as it 



