108 Importance of Grooming. 



The men descend at 2 a.m., which only leaves 

 three hours to perform a number of duties, the 

 time for which, estimated as low as possible, is 

 not sufficient to allow of their being effected in 

 any other than a most slovenly manner really 

 occupies two hours more than the men can 

 actually bestow on them. At night they are 

 merely stripped, watered, and fed, in order to 

 allow them rest. 



To occupy more time with them would be 

 also prejudicial, as the hours of rest would be 

 materially interfered with ; and consequently an 

 average of thirty animals, estimated at about 

 300, are thought no more of than to value 

 their care and management at the rate of fifteen 

 shillings a week, or sixpence per head the 

 amount paid to the horsekeepers. 



Here, where the truth of the old maxim, " A 

 good cleaning is equal to a feed of corn/' would 

 be faithfully realized, it cannot be carried 

 out. 



When complaints were made, and exact con- 

 ditions represented, all was pooh-poohed, and any 

 alterations it was said would cost the estate 

 300 per annum, as ascertained by figures, which, 

 emanating from the executive were reliable, but 

 worth nothing when they arose from the 

 mental calculations of one who was not a 

 " Viewer/' 



Such is the connexion which exists between 

 the skin and digestive organs, that if these poor 



