3l8 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERV 



a journey, or while they are subjected to any active 

 employment. But when they have cooled, two or 

 three quarts may be given to them, and after that 

 their feed. Before finishing their corn, two or three 

 quarts more may be offered them. 



If horses refuse their food after travelling, it is a 

 bad sign of them, as a healthy and vigorous animal 

 will always feed well after he is properly cooled down 

 and has had a drink ; and when horses do refuse their 

 food on a journey, they ought not to be again made 

 to travel that day, or at least for some considerable 

 time afterwards, and not until they have taken their 

 feed. 



Horses will invariably, if left to themselves, prefer 

 soft to hard water, and when cool may be allowed to 

 drink their fill, and no evil will result therefrom. 

 Instinct or experience has taught them this ; they will 

 leave crystalline hard water, and resort to soft, how- 

 ever turbid it may be. 



Horses kept in the stable should be watered in 

 summer at least three times a day ; and if this salutary 

 advice be attended to, many of the diseases to w^hich 

 they are liable will be prevented. Horses subjected 

 to hard labour require a great deal of drink to supply 

 that moisture which is thrown off by perspiration, and 

 the poor animals but too frequently suffer much from 

 a want of due attention to this. Let any one observe 

 how eagerly a horse plunges his muzzle into a pail of 

 water, and with what difficulty he can be removed 

 from it while a drop remains, and he will be able to 

 judge of the thirst which he must have suffered. If 

 they are allowed a moderate quantity of water while 

 warm, they must not be permitted to stand still for 

 some time afterwards, otherwise very bad consequences 

 may follow ; and nothing is so likely irreparably to 



