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in promoting and keeping up that condition the 

 other more strengthening food has brought him 

 into. 



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Malt 



I have alluded to, as a useful occasional article 

 for stable use ; and made into a mash after a long 

 day, or where we think a horse feels chilled and 

 uncomfortable, it will sometimes be taken by 

 horses shy of a bran one, and in such cases is a 

 most nourishing and consoling supper ; it is also 

 most useful where horses are recoverins: from 

 illness ; in short, in any case where we should 

 like a basin of gruel with a fair allowance of 

 sherry in it, in preference to more solid food : so, 

 in a similar case, a malt mash will be found as 

 soothing and comfortable to the stomach of the 

 horse. 



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Bakley. 



This is an article but of very rare use in an 

 English stable, though many Easterns use it en- 

 tirely as stable corn ; it is, however, by far too 

 heating for our horses ; possibly in hot climates, 

 where horses sweat profusely, its heating qualities 

 may be carried off through the pores of the skin. 

 I have occasionally found it useful to horses who. 



