GENERAL REMARKS AND INFORMATION. II 



chaff before the horse is fed upon it. This is most 

 important. All the dust should be well sifted out before 

 giving it to the animals. Dusty chaff ruins many horses. 

 It is also injurious to give them flour of any kind in 

 their food, viz., barley meal, pea meal, wheat meal, or, 

 in fact, anything of that sort. When any of these meals 

 are given to the horses they should always be mixed with 

 damped chaff, so that the animals do not inhale the 

 dust, if not, the latter clogs the horse's inside, and 

 often is the cause of its being broken winded. 



There is another thing I have not referred to, that 

 is, when a horse has an accident and slips, or falls 

 down, the driver occasionally gives the poor beast a kick 

 in the ribs, or else a good lashing with the whip, to 

 try and get him up. Now, to say the least of it, this 

 is most inhuman, the horse would not fall down if he 

 could help it. That is not all, however, when he is 

 down he is very frightened and nervous, but when it 

 comes to lashing him with the whip and kicking him, 

 in less than three minutes the poor thing is all of a 

 lather with fright. Any man who does this kind of thing 

 ought to have six months' hard labour, yet it is done 

 every day. I may say I am seldom in London but 

 I see one or two horses down, and have helped 

 to get many scores of them up on their feet again. 

 While doing this one cannot help noticing what a 

 difference there is where the driver is kind to his 

 animal. When such is the case the horse is perfectly 

 still until he is loosed. But on the other hand, when 



