286 SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. 



give room for the circulation and respiration of 

 the animal ; which, with other proper treatment, 

 in due time enables him to undergo great exer- 

 tion, not only without endangering his constitu- 

 tion, but with comparative ease to himself; and 

 even if the horse be in a plethoric state, and, after 

 having gone over the sweating ground, the per- 

 spiration is encouraged to pass off from the surface 

 of his body to the extent I shall presently speak 

 of, he will be preserved from any inflammatory 

 attacks, as that of fever or inflammation of his 

 lungs. 



How long the horses in question that have 

 been over the sweating ground will have to stand 

 breaking out under their additional clothing, 

 must depend on circumstances. The time they 

 will have to stand may be from five to ten or 

 fifteen minutes, just according to how quickly 

 the perspiration may begin to flow down their 

 fore and hind quarters. While waiting for the 

 horses to break out in their sweats, the various 

 spare boys should be employed about each; one 

 boy may untie the first and second string of the 

 hood under the horse's jaw ; and pushing the 

 hood a little up, he may with a rubber, without 

 annoying or interfering at all with the respira- 



