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PREPARATION OF HORSES 

 BEFORE GOING ON BOARD. 



If broken-in horses are taken fresh off grass, 



or If the duration of the Intended voyage Is 

 not supposed to be longer than, say, ten 



days, little or no preparation will be required 

 as regards food and exercise. On a longer 

 journey and proportionately to Its duration, 

 corn-fed and hard-worked horses — agreeably 

 to the remarks made on pages 2 to 9 should 

 have their corn and exercise gradually 

 diminished, so as to prepare them as 

 thoroughly as possible for their new condi- 

 tions of life, under which, hay and roots will 



