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unlimited supply of good water. The groom 

 boils sufficient oats to do for two or three 

 days, and, when cool, mixes through it a 

 small proportion of bruised Indian corn. On 

 this the horses are fed as with ordinary oats 

 three times daily, and so enjoy the feeding 

 that not one grain is left in the mangers, 

 which are placed low upon the ground. The 

 surest proof of the efficacy of this excellent 

 and economical feeding is that my horses 

 never sweat, never blow, never tire. When 

 other hunters are standing still, mine have 

 not turned a hair ; and, as prize-winners and 

 brilliant goers, they cannot be excelled. 



The principle I go on is this : — If I eat a 

 •cupful of raw rice, it certainly does me no 

 good ; but if I boil it, it makes three or four 

 times the quantity of good, wholesome, 

 digestible food, every grain of which goes to 

 the nourishment of my body. And it is 

 precisely so with the oats and the horse. In 

 addition to this feeding, I give abuuda n^e of 

 good, sweet, moist hay, varied by green food in 

 summer, substituting carrots in the winter- 

 time, of which vegetable they are particularly 



