Watering Horses. 153 



part of the front posts, and one of its rubber 

 pipes can be seen, turned up out of the way, 

 at the top of the spare stall. 



Probably the best way to water horses at 

 sea is out of an ordinary sheet iron or zinc 

 stable bucket held up to each animal. If a 

 horse is watered out of his metal or wooden 

 feeding trough, the probability is that the 

 water will become more or less tainted by par- 

 ticles of sour grain, and will consequently be 

 distasteful to the animal. In no case should 

 water left in a trough by one horse, be poured 

 into the trough of another horse for him to 

 drink ; for the degree of contamination of the 

 fluid will thereby be probably doubled. In 

 watering several horses out of one bucket, the 

 dregs at the bottom of the bucket, each time 

 it has been more or less completely emptied 



