.'328 SWEATING HORSES. 



produced by the increased quantity of sweaters^ 

 together with the additional length of ground 

 they had to come in their sweats. The criterion 

 by which he must be guided in regulating the 

 quantity of clothes his horses will have to sweat 

 in in future, is the readiness with which the per- 

 spiration may begin to flow down the fore and 

 hind extremities of the horses. 



Should it appear that the horses have not 

 sweated sufficiently from the additional clothes 

 and the increased length of ground, I would re- 

 commend, on their next sweating day, adding to 

 the former in preference to increasing the latter; 

 for, in adding to the length of ground when 

 horses are heavy in themselves and heavily 

 clothed, they are more liable to become leg-weary, 

 and it may then happen that a leg of one or 

 the other of the horses in question may get amiss. 



The horses having been scraped in the rubbing- 

 house, during the time of their being roughly 

 dressed (that they may dry kindly and not break 

 out into a second sort of sweat) should in due 

 time be gradually cooled by throwing open the 

 ventilating apertures or windows. The boys. 



