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self-assertion, much will have been accomplished to 

 convince a vicious colt that the intellect of man is 

 superior to the intellect of a colt, even though asso- 

 ciated with powerful muscles. 



FEEDING 



Driving- horses, especially those used at fast work, 

 should be fed with great care. They should have 

 relatively a greater proportion of concentrates and a 

 less proportion of roughage than those used for heavy, 

 slow work. Horses designed for fast work should not 

 have their bowels distended with coarse foods. Some 

 roughage is always necessary to float and divide the 

 concentrates in the stomach, otherwise the grain and 

 meal become somewhat compacted, and then are not 

 easily attacked by the digestive juices. There is always 

 some danger of feeding so liberally as to produce over- 

 fatness. Fat horses, to the untrained eye, appear more 

 beautiful than lean ones, and hence the danger of 

 sacrificing highest usefulness for beauty. Any un- 

 necessary weight on the legs reduces to some extent 

 their efficiency, and also tends to make the horse slug- 

 gish. The family horse maybe kept much plumper than 

 the roadster, for he is not driven so fast and far, and, 

 by reason of the extra flesh, in time he becomes safer 

 and less nervous. If the food of the horse thin in 

 flesh be increased, his spirit is likely to increase for a 

 time, and a horse considered safe when thin may 

 become so energetic and frisky when putting on flesh 

 as to injure his reliability as a family horse. Having 



