442 THE HOK8E. 



MANAGEMENT OF FARM HOESES. 



Agriculturists find it to their advantage to keep their horses 

 in the stables and yards throughout the summer, in preference 

 to turning them out into the pasture-fields. The manure which 

 they make more than compensates for the expense of bringing 

 their food to them. In the winter, an allowance of turnips 

 saves a vast quantity of hay and oats, and keeps the animals 

 cool ; they are preferable to carrots. Bran is useful, but it 

 should never be given to them, or to any other horses, without 

 being previously scalded. Carters have a most reprehensible 

 practice of driving their horses into ponds to drink, while at- 

 tached to each other by their gearing or harness ; many have 

 been drowned in consequence. This class of men have also a 

 most abominable propensity for giving drugs of various kinds ; 

 a stern injunction should be laid against it. The plan of cut- 

 ting their hay into chaff" is to be recommended, as it saves 

 waste ; where this is not done, the quantity of food destroyed, 



NEW MODE OF STJMMEKING IN THE STABLES. 



This plan, first suggested in England by the celebrated 

 sporting writer known as ISTimrod, with a view to retaining 

 hunters in condition, and bringing them back to their work with 

 less trouble than under the old method of turning out to grass, 

 is strongly recommended to horse keepers in this country. 



The extreme heat of the summers, which parches and de- 

 stroys the pastures and renders the soil almost as hard as pave- 

 ment, except in marshy situations where the myriads of flies 

 and mosquitoes torment a horse's very life out, renders it, in 

 my opinion, highly inexpedient and even dangerous to turn 

 horses out to grass during the hot weather. In ninety-nine 

 cases out of a hundred, they are brought up again in worse 

 plight than they went out, and with their systems debilitated, 

 not reinvigorated. 



SmsiMERiNG.— Until within the last thirty or forty years, 

 hunters were almost always turned out as soon as the first grass 



