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total should at once be gone Into, as it is suspicious. 

 If preferred dry bran may be used with the oats 

 instead of chaff, as is always done by the loth 

 Hussars. The object of both is the same, i. e. to 

 prevent the horse bolting the oats. Some owners 

 maintain that straw chaff is better than hay chaff. 

 This, like the use of bran instead of either, seems a 

 matter of opinion. 



The carrots are not a necessity, but it is a capital 

 plan for a horse-owner to always have some ready 

 cut up in his stable or harness-room, so that he may 

 give his horse, or horses, a piece or two each time 

 he goes to see them; they will thus connect his 

 appearance with pleasure, and they will very soon 

 get to know his voice if he calls out to them as 

 he goes into the stable. A well-known voice will 

 go further with most horses than any amount of whip 

 or spur. A little grass, or green food, is good in 

 spring and summer. 



It will be seen that the cost of keeping and 

 looking after a horse to a soldier, when he can find 

 stabling in barracks, and has a soldier groom, works 

 out to 2^. 3i<^. per day. 



Soldiers of all sorts and conditions are often 

 heard saying, "Oh, I can't afford to keep a horse," 

 and yet some of these drink and smoke every day 

 more than this 2s. ^\d. over and above what they 

 actually require ; nay, putting aside the benefit of 

 the exercise and the education they could get for 

 the money, they would be much better in health 

 without the drink and the smoke. 



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