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the horse lias tliorouglily cooled down he may be 

 given a bucketful of water. The horse should have 

 the offer of water at least four times a day when 

 a tank is not fixed in the stall beside him. The 

 quantity of water a horse will drink per day fluctuates 

 according to his constitution, the feeding he gets, 

 and the nature of the work he is doing. From two 

 to three bucketfuls is about an average quantity for 

 an average horse at average work. Dirt}', stagnant 

 water should never be given to a horse. It is gen- 

 erally full of putrefying organic matter and swarming 

 with multitudinous animalcule germs, indeed, the 

 condition of the one is a necessity to the other — 

 hence the importance of using only pure water for 

 drinking purposes. Horses should never be allowed 

 to drink from ponds nor standing water of any kind ; 

 nor should they ever be ridden through water, as 

 they often are, with the object of washing the mud 

 off their legs when they are brought in dirty from 

 a journey. Rough-legged farm horses when treated 

 in this manner must necessarily stand wet over the 

 whole night, and, besides being productive of chills, 

 it is instrumental in developing grease, cracked heels, 

 weeds, and several other diseases. 



GROOMING. 



The horse should be groomed as regularly as he 

 is fed, for a well-groomed horse, as in the case of 

 feeding, will thrive better on three feeds of oats per 

 day than a badly-groomed one will thrive on four. 



