294 SWEATING CRAVING HORSES. 



To prevent my so often repeating that the 

 horses' beds are to be set fair, suffice it to say, 

 that the business of setting them fair is invari- 

 ably to take place immediately on the stables 

 being open, after the bales are taken down; and 

 they are again to be set fair immediately after 

 the horses are finished dressing. Any horse that 

 from lying down may have displaced his clothes, 

 should be stripped, wiped over, and re-clothed. 



The manes and tails of all the horses being 



combed out, their legs rubbed, and their beds 



set fair, their muzzles are taken off, and their 



heads as usual let down to the end of the chain, 



and the whole of the horses in the establishment 



are now to be fed. But they are not all to be fed 



alike. Those horses that have been sweating 



should have given to them a warm mash, of equal 



parts of scalded bran and oats, which have in 



due time been got ready, and have been allowed 



to stand covered up in buckets until cool enough 



to use. Those horses that are rather light in 



their carcasses will require but a small portion of 



mash, say a couple of wooden bowls full; (see the 



dimensions of this bowl in Vol. I. p. 40). But the 



horses of strong constitutions, and thai are apt 



to be costive, and some of them are more par- 



