2 6 THE HORSE : ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 



and beans, because they are not so good for the wind as 

 oats and meadow hay. 



If one horse is fed on clover and a large quantity of 

 beans, and another on good meadow hay and oats, it will 

 be noticed at once that the wind of the horse fed on the 

 latter stuff will be much better than the other. I draw 

 attention to this fact, because earlier in this Chapter I 

 recommend beans to be given when they are working hard, 

 and a novice might think he should give a hunter a good 

 quantity of beans, and in some cases if this were done it 

 would be fatal. I never allow more than five or six 

 pounds of beans a day to a carriage horse, but ten pounds 

 a day would not hurt a draught horse, that is if he is 

 worked hard. 



There is one other class of horse keepers I should like 

 to mention as regards feeding. It was thinking of this latter 

 class which first induced me to write a book on the horse. 

 To those who have not been accustomed to horses a few 

 hints may be useful. I have seen so many horses in my 

 travels mismanaged and badly fed ; sometimes they are, — 

 what shall I say ? — killed by kindness. Many people when they 

 have a horse think they should wet their food and give it to 

 them what they call sloppy, as they think a horse has so 

 much less trouble to eat it. This is a great mistake. If 

 the food is made wet in the morning, very often the horse 

 swallows it down much quicker and does not masticate it 

 properly, therefore a great deal of good food is spoiled in this 

 way. For instance — costermongers, greengrocers, and such 

 as these, will often get a little bran, chaff and oats, and mix 



