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care could be fed but twice, or at the most three times, a day ; 

 a principle which seems to me bad in theory, and one I can 

 no more approve of than his system of daily giving each 

 horse a ball. Yet he succeeded ; and " success is genius." 



In sum, I may say that horses should be fed five times 

 a day, with as many good old oats and hay chaff as they can 

 eat. These I think they require and should have, and nothing 

 more : though in some cases, light or delicate feeders may 

 have a few old white peas or split beans added to each feed. 

 In isolated cases this addition may be of service, though I find 

 most horses do well and even better without it. Hay may 

 be given, like corn, without limitation ; for as long as they have 

 plenty of both they will eat of neither sufficient to hurt them- 

 selves. On the qualities of food and water, a matter 

 the importance of which cannot be overrated, I shall have 

 something to say in the next chapter. 



