94 EQUITATION AND HORSE TRAINING. 



With light eaters mix carrots, bread, green forage, etc., 

 with the oats, but in small quantities. A piece of salt in 

 the feed box is often useful in creating an appetite. 



When a horse, as is often the case, needs cooling (the 

 counteracting of the heating caused by grain) he should 

 be given two handfuls of sulphate of soda in a mash three 

 or four days in succession. The mash is placed in the 

 feed box after the evening feed and left there all night. 



If a horse is a large eater and fills his belly with the 

 bedding put on a muzzle after he has finished his feed. 

 " A horse must be left absolutely quiet when eating; the 

 evening feed should be the largest. 



