Chapter VI 



THE "GREEN" OR UNACCLIMATED HORSE 



AND HIS CARE 



IT comes to the ill fortune of most of us, at 

 some period of our horse-keeping experi- 

 ence, to purchase, and be obliged to care 

 for, a horse fresh from the country — west 

 or east, north or south — to watch for and tend 

 him in his acclimation sickness, which is certain 

 sooner or later, with varying degree of severity, 

 to overtake him, and to subsequently congratulate 

 ourselves upon his recovery, or to mourn his 

 untimely demise. 



The trouble which we thus call "acclimation 

 fever " is rarely other than a more or less severe 

 attack of influenza, brought on by the transfer 

 from airy country barns, or pastures, to hot and 

 ill-ventilated dealers' — or private — stables in 

 town or city. In the former case the animal is 

 not improbably dosed with drugs to resist the 

 approach of the disease, and when removed to the 



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