27(3 SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. 



In the clothing of horses that are going to 

 sweat, there are two other things invariably to 

 be observed: the one is, not to let the clothes be 

 to such an extent in quantity as in any way to 

 incumber the horse, so as to interfere with the 

 pace he ought to go; the other, not to let the 

 pace in the early stages of his condition be faster 

 than is absolutely necessary to produce a good 

 sweat from him. 



Horses, in commencing their first sweats in 

 spring, are all more or less unclean in their 

 skins, and more particularly those of strong con- 

 stitutions that may have been stripped and al- 

 lowed to lie by in a loose box during the winter. 

 There is an accumulation on the surface of those 

 horses' bodies of an unctuous, scurfy, or dusty 

 sort of substance, which, in the first two or 

 three sweats, mixes with the perspiration, and 

 causes the fluid scraped from the horses' bodies 

 to be of a frothy, glutinous, greasy and unclean 

 nature; and therefore, until these horses have 

 sweated two or three times, I should recommend 

 the oldest of the sweating clothes being used 

 next their skins. 



Horses, as they are improving in their condi- 



