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weight and appearance. She had become dyspeptic 

 from overfeeding. I have never known an instance 

 where the system, pursued year after year, resulted 

 in failure. I could name a score or more cases as 

 marked as those here given ; while, in many more, 

 the only apparent effect upon good horses, that v/ere 

 already in good health and condition, has been to 

 keep them thus v/ith something less of feed. But 

 the gain in feed and saving of time is trifling com- 

 pared with the saving of horseflesh ; for animals that 

 are habitually fed at noon (even if the '' two meals " 

 are divided into three), will sooner or later get se- 

 verely hurt, by reas'on of the heat and fatigue of the 

 forenoon and the resumption of v/ork again in the 

 afternoon, since this prevents the digestion of the 

 mid-day meal. 



C. H., of Brunswick, Me., "in the grave-stone busi- 

 ness," which he represented as being very hard on 

 horses, " used up," as he expresses it, several horses 

 while feeding them generously three times a day. 

 The last one he owned showed signs of being '' over- 

 worked," until after he adopted the two-meal plan. 

 He says he " blundered into the practice" from hav- 

 ing to take the noon meal at irregular hours. It v/as 

 sometimes early, sometimes very late, when he and 

 his horse dined ; and finally he got into the way of 

 eating only night and morning himself. Finding his 

 own condition improved, he thought he would try 

 the experiment with his horse. After a few weeks 

 the animal began to improve and '' gained right up, 

 so that," said he, " a friend remarked one day, ' Weil, 



