THE 



HORSEOWNER AND STABLEMAN'S 

 COMPANION, 



PAET I. 



MISMANAGEMENT. 



MISMANAGEMENT in any department is universally 

 acknowledged to be the precursor of evil con- 

 sequences, and one of the golden rules in our 

 social economy is that which teaches how to re- 

 cognise the one and avert the other. 



If there is a section of the community which 

 languidly basks in the oblivion of misrule more 

 than another/ it is that under whose care are 

 placed our valuable domestic animals, and to 

 which we trace deterioration of breed, prevalence 

 of disease, and a high rate of mortality. 



As things at present exist in the many places to 

 which these remarks apply, one would be inclined 

 to the opinion that the study of system in the stable 

 and cow-shed is unworthy the time, trouble, atten- 

 tion, or altogether useless: hence the result; valu- 

 able animals are left to the care of illiterate atten- 

 dants, who prescribe for their wants and comforts 

 under predominate ignorance. At one time they 



