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how severe the work had been, but if so stated by Mr. 

 Stevens, there is no doubt of its being the case. He was 

 very methodical in all of his business, and his training- 

 stable was as perfect as money and skill could make it. 

 There was a weighing-machine connected with it, and the 

 reductions in the weight of the horses, as the training 

 progressed, carefully noted. The results of each sweat and 

 trial could thus readily be seen, and the presumption 

 is, from the success that generally attended his stable, that 

 his horses were usually in good condition. He had a room 

 fitted up with hot-air pipes, and is, probably, the first 

 who used the Roman bath in the training of horses. How 

 it succeeded with him I have never learned, but I believe, 

 from engagements with the government in the construc- 

 tion of a floating battery, and which absorbed his whole 

 time, the training was discontinued soon after the erection 

 of the bath. My intention was at first to show the differ- 

 ence between sweating with hot air and clothing, when 

 hot air might be used to advantage, &c., but, as I believe, 

 in the training of trotters, that the benefit derived would 

 not equal the expense of construction and the care re- 

 quisite for its successful use, we will confine our attention 

 to the more simple mode. Scales that we could weigh the 

 horses on would be of great service, and would materially 

 assist us in coming to correct conclusions regarding the 

 effects of the various sweats; and problems in work and 

 feeding could also be demonstrated more effectually. 



PUPIL. In preparing the Falcon for a ten-mile race, I 

 reduced him one hundred and twenty-five pounds in three 

 weeks, sweating him once a week, with a great deal more 

 work between them than I would give now. In all the 

 horses I have had to deal with, he is the only one that I 

 could reduce so rapidly without injury. No difference 

 how long the distance, how fast the pace, or how many 

 clothes he was wrapped in, he never exhibited the least 



