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Quantity of green forage to be given. — Lucerne. — 

 Carrots. — Price of carrots. ■ — Quantity of food required 

 for a horse. — Daily scale of food.- — Cost of horse-keep. 

 — Annual cost of horse-keep. — Feeding horses. — Chaff. 

 — Indigestion. — Hay and straw for chaff. — Feeding- 

 hours. — Feeding with hay.- — Watering. — Food and 

 work. — Bad feeders. — Instinct. — Coaxing delicate 

 feeders. — Mice in stable. — Eock-salt.- — Bran-mashes. — 

 How to make bran-mashes. — Bran-poultices. — Linseed- 

 poultices. — How to make linseed-poultices. — Gruel. — 

 How to make gruel. — Ale for tired horse. — An English 

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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Personal supervision by master. — Such personal super- 

 vision not lowering. — Evidences of a good groom. — 

 Amount of work for one servant. — Overworked grooms. 

 — Good servants procurable. — A fair day's work and a 

 fair day's wage. — Hours for grooming. — Time required 

 to clean a horse. — Blind horses and summer coats. — 

 ' Wolf-teeth ' and shying. — Hour for ' morning ' stables. 

 — Hours for, and routine of, grooming. — Morning. — 

 Mid - day. — Evening. — Grooming a tired hunter. — 

 — Extra rules for grooming hunters. — Refusing corn. — 

 Points to be specially attended to in grooming. — How 

 to test good grooming. — How to groom. — The use of 

 the curry - comb. — Clipping. — Time for clipping. — 

 Singeing. — Naphtha and gas singeing - lamps. — Un- 

 dipped legs. — Treatment after singeing. — Mane-pulling. 

 — How to pull a mane. — Hogging manes. — Tail-cutting. 

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CHAPTER XIX. 



Shoeing.— Odd feet indicative of previous unsoundness. 

 —Construction of foot .—Shape and structure of crust 

 and sole.— The frog. — Thickness of crust and sole. — 



