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if he is too much stinted of his water, he will 

 also refuse his corn ; and if he is over-fed, he will, 

 of course, refuse his corn. In proportion to the 

 quantity of food that craving horses consume in 

 the course of the twenty-four hours, a greater or 

 less quantity of the different fluids of their bodies 

 will be exhausted in the process of digestion, and 

 which of course produces a greater or less degree 

 of thirst; besides this, these horses are much 

 oftener sweating than any others. Such are the 

 predisposing causes which occasion them to drink 

 larger portions of water, at different intervals, 

 than the lighter horses that feed more sparingly 

 and sweat less frequently. 



As some few of the craving horses may be 

 disposed to drink larger quantities of water than 

 is absolutely necessary, either for the digesting 

 of their food, or quenching of their thirst, that 

 the groom may not be led astray in the watering 

 of such horses at the troughs, or perhaps some- 

 times at ponds, he should in the commencement 

 of training them measure the quantity of water 

 that each may be disposed to drink when they 

 are very thirsty. This is to be done by keeping 

 the above horses for a certain time short of water ; 

 as, for example, instead of allowing them to drink 



