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be their most healthy food. I need hardly 

 say that the keeping qualities of green grass 

 are not sufficiently good to admit of its use 

 at sea, and consequently dried grass (hay) is 

 employed. If the animals in question have a 

 voyage of about a month's duration in front 

 of them, I do not think that they should have 

 less than a fortnight's preparation. 



I am informed that horses which have been 

 brought up in a wild state and which have 

 never been handled, suffer far more from the 

 effects of their new surroundings on board ship, 

 than animals which are accustomed to stable 

 life. Hence it is well, for at least ten days or a 

 fortnight previous to embarkation, to stable and 

 handle these animals, to teach them to feed 

 out of mangers and to drink out of buckets, 

 and to accustom them to be tied up. If 



