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person to all the horses in the stable ; and in others, each 

 man mixes and feeds the horses of which he has the care. 

 Thus it will be seen that it is at least as much for the good 

 of horses so employed that they should be provided with 

 good stabling, as that they should be lightly worked to 

 keep up a certain condition and fitness for work, or good 

 appearance. To keep a horse and give him light work 

 will not insure a high standard of good health if he be 

 kept in a dark, damp, ill-ventilated and badly constructed 

 place called a stable. 



We feel that it is not necessary to say much about the 

 management of city car stables, and perhaps would not 

 have alluded to them at all. but for the good condition of 

 the horses which are stabled in some of them, and to which 

 we often refer when illustrating the effects of good stabling 

 and mixed feed, that form the food of most of them. The 

 feed, as already hinted at, is what some persons call mixed, 

 chopped, or soft feed, and which some stablemen, par- 

 ticularly draymen and carters have an aversion to, upon 

 the ground that it is too soft ; but if their true thoughts 

 were known, their objections would be found in the trouble 

 of cutting the hay or straw, and mixing it with water and 

 corn-meal during the dinner hour, or when they come to 

 the stable after the day's work is over. This can be the 

 only true reason, because chopped feed, when properly pre- 

 pared, and of proper, sound materials, is the safest, 

 strongest and most economical feed that can be given to a 

 hard-worked horse, not of too fast work. The mixture 



