20 STABLE MANAGEMENT. 
care could be fed but twice, or at the most three times, a day ; 
a principle which seems to me bad in theory, and one I can 
no more approve of than his system -of daily giving each 
horse a ball. Yet he succeeded; and “ success is genius.” 
In sum, I may say that horses should be fed five times 
a day, with as many good old oats and hay chaff as they can 
eat. These I think they require and should have, and nothing 
more: though in some cases, light or delicate feeders may 
have a few old white peas or split beans added to each feed. 
In isolated instances this addition may be of service, though I 
find most horses do well and even better without it. Hay 
may be given, like corn, without limitation ; foras long as they 
have plenty of both they will eat of neither sufficient to hurt 
themselves. On the qualities of food and water, a matter 
the importance of which cannot be overrated, I shall have 
something to say in the next chapter. 
