CHAPTEE VIII. 



STABLE MANAGEMENT GROOMING! SWEATING BANDAGES 

 CLOTHING RULES FOR THE STABLE. 



PRECEPTOR. That was a very unfortunate case, losing 

 your colt, and I have no doubt the reason you give for 

 the attack of tetanus is correct. If, when the shoe was 

 pulled off, you had put the foot in a bucket of hot, strong 

 ley, made with wood ashes, the fatal result would prob- 

 ably have been avoided. Horses take the lock-jaw with- 

 out having been wounded. Yet, when it occurs without 

 a wound, it is easier managed, and does not generally 

 prove so serious. 



The stable management of horses is of the greatest im- 

 portance, and the strictest attention is required in order 

 that their condition may be advanced, which all our skill 

 will not effect if they are neglected there. I do not in- 

 tend, at present, to give you a lecture on stable economy, 

 but merely to assist you in having the stalls arranged so 

 that the least work possible will be required to take care 

 of the inmates. This stable is not what I imagine either 

 of us would have built; still it can be arranged so that the 

 horses may be very comfortable. 



It was my intention to have given you a plan of a train- 

 ing stable that would meet my ideas ; but as you have 

 not yet erected one on the Iowa Farm, will await your de- 

 scription, and suggest such changes as may appear bene- 

 ficial. Your nine horses we will divide into three classes, 

 viz. : Falcon, May-Day, and Delle, will take the three stalls 



