20 THE HORSE : ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 



feeder should always observe whether the animal is perfectly 

 well or not. If he is not, he wants nursing a little 

 with something tempting, viz., a little scalded bran mixed 

 up with some chaff and a very few oats, because sometimes 

 a horse, when it has been on a journey, becomes faint. 



Some horses will never clean their manger out well, 

 they get so accustomed to the person who feeds them 

 cleaning it out for them and throwing the remains on the 

 ground, that they merely pick the best corn and chaff out 

 and leave the other. I do not say if there is any rubbish 

 at the bottom of the manager it ought not to be thrown 

 out. That should all be swept out occasionally. When 

 there is poor hay cut up among good, horses will often pick 

 out the sweet and leave the mouldy. Now it cannot be 

 expected that a horse is going to work hard on mouldy 

 hay. Unless horses are properly fed, either the owner or 

 the horses will have to suffer, most probably both will. I 

 always believe in cutting the hay up for horses into chaff 

 unless the animal occasionally gets off his feed, then he 

 may have a little hay. 



A horse perhaps, after a hard day's work, or a long 

 journey, goes into the stable late at night, and the one 

 who attends to it throws a lot of food into the manger, and 

 the following morning they find a good part of it left. 

 Now in such cases as these, it is always well to give the 

 horse a nice little bit of sweet hay when leaving it at night, 

 it tempts the horse to eat, and it will often eat the hay 

 before it lies down. But as to the quantity of food that is 

 put in the manger afterwards, the attendant must use his 



