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When such is the case, he must be coaxed into feed- 

 ing. Some such horses will feed from the hand 

 a little at a time. Most horses can be tempted by 

 sugar, and a little brown sugar sprinkled over the 

 corn will often have the desired effect. If not, the 

 food must be taken away and offered again and 

 again till the last thing at night, and then if still 

 refused, it may be left in the manger in hopes that 

 it may be taken in the night. I may here mention 

 that mice in the stable are often the cause of 

 horses not feeding. They get into the mangers and 

 frighten the horses. The remedy is, of course, a 

 simple one, viz. : a good stable cat. 



Rock-salt should be kept in every manger. It 

 has a most beneficial effect on the tone of a horse's 

 stomach, and horses are very fond of it. It is very 

 cheap (about Id. per lb.), and a lump lasts a long 

 time, as the horse only licks it and rolls it about. 



I have known horses in India eat away at the 

 stable walls and mangers, which are generally made 

 of mud bricks dried in the sun, to get the saltpetre 

 which is universally present in an Indian soil. 



Where a horse is not doing much work, his food, 

 as I have remarked, must be proportionate ; he 

 must have less hard food. Therefore, from one- 

 third to one-half of his food may be made up of 

 bran. 



