CONDITION AND CONDITIONING 



be accepted ; if he is not, and you look after 

 things yourself, better far, for your own credit, to 

 resign in his favor, or to find some one able to 

 supplant you both, for the ability of the horse is 

 largely dependable upon his treatment, and he, 

 at least, will of a certainty " do as he is done by." 



Given a hearty feeder and one who is regularly 

 worked and exercised, his care resolves itself 

 chiefly into the matter of feeding and grooming; 

 but there is a vast army of the other kinds, 

 excellent in all respects, but wanting in little 

 details, that nursing and coddling over, which, to 

 the detriment of their appearance and of their 

 reputation, they seldom get. 



The average horse is not fed or watered often 

 enough, early enough, or late enough. With his 

 small stomach and voluminous intestinal arrange- 

 ment little and often is the necessary and whole- 

 some rule, and the long hours of the winter's 

 night are made doubly irksome by the fact that 

 after a certain period the poor animal is both 

 hungry and thirsty ; nor will the provision of a 

 large feed of hay and grain obviate the trouble, 

 because his own breath and the usual stable 

 excretions render the provender unpalatable long 

 before appetite has prompted its consumption, 



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