Regular Feeding. 



muscle. If weight only is wanted, it would not 

 be so frequently remarked that horses "will not 

 pull a sitting hen off her nest." 



And, again, if nothing but weight will suffice, 

 then a lump of lead or any inanimate object 

 would answer equally as well. 



I would refer my readers to Youatt's excellent 

 treatise on draught, and they will perceive that 

 other objections are against tall animals for 

 moving loads, particularly on four-wheeled 

 carriages. 



REGULAR FEEDING. 



It is one of the essentials of good management 

 that horses should receive their food as regularly 

 as possible. Without regularity, and especially 

 with long fasts, the digestive organs are pro- 

 strated or weakened, and food, which would 

 otherwise be nutritious, brings about those 

 changes already described. 



In coal mines, where feeding and work is dic- 

 tated by those who know nothing about it, broken 

 wind, colic, diabetes, organic diseases of various 

 kinds, calculi and death by rupture, are common. 

 When, on the contrary, attention is given, these 

 fatalities are rare, and when they occur are 

 usually traced to other causes.* 



* Much valuable information has from time to time been de- 

 tailed to me by my friends, Mr. Charles Hunting, M.R.C.V.S., 

 and Mr. Luke Scott, M.R.C.V.S., whose experience in the 

 management of pit animals is of the most extensive character 

 in Britain, and therefore to be received with respect. 



