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their proper place. I believe the system above given agrees 
in substance with that to which most horses are subjected whilst 
in training, as the art is practised in the present day. It is 
at all events a system that I have adopted and pursued for 
many years with almost unqualified success, and thercfore 
I can recommend it with confidence to others as being on 
the whole the best. It, like all other rules, has its exceptions ; 
and one of these exceptions it will not be out of place to 
give, although it must not be understood that in doing so 
I agree with the principles enunciated. 
Mr. T. Parr, who is undoubtedly an authority and whose 
opinion is entitled to all respect, informs me that he uses no 
artificial lights in his stables even in the depth of winter ; and 
that both in summer and winter he gives large quantities of 
hay, of which he thinks horses cannot have too much, whilst 
on the other hand oats may in his opinion be supplied too 
plentifully, and consequently he uses them sparingly. 
One consequence of this is that, at certain seasons, the 
horses in his stable can neither be dressed, watered, nor fed, 
from about 3 p.m. to 8 a.m. ora little earlier the next morn- 
ing; and must in the meantime be not only in a most uncom- 
fortable state of dirt, but breathing a foetid air that renders 
them liable to bronchial affections and disease of the lungs, 
which leave so many roarers; and to ophthalmia and other 
disorders of the eye. The times of feeding must be diminished 
as well as the quantity of the corn given (the most nutritious * Ne 
part of the diet), unless served in very large feeds, which would 
tend rather to prevent the animals from eating than induce 
them to eat. The hay too, if given in like unseemly pro- 
portions, must have a similar nauseating effect on the horses, 
preventing their touching what they would, if given in smaller 
feeds, often eat and enjoy. It is clear the animals under his 
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